[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] tests: Download lena.pnm if its missing from the source tree

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 28 14:42:45 CEST 2014


On 28.08.2014 14:29, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 8/28/2014 12:28 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>>>> ffmpeg -f data -i http://samples.ffmpeg.org/image-samples/lena.pnm -c copy -f data -map 0 -y lena.pnm
>>>>
>>>> From:
>>>> <https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2014-August/161881.html>
>>>
>>> possible
>>>
>>> but would this make andreas / debian happy ?
>>
>> No.
>
> I think you've all missed Lou's point here. The point isn't to use the URL
> via -i <url> during testing. The point was that you can use ffmpeg itself to
> download the file to disk, instead of wget, and saves a dep from being added.

That's clear. But it doesn't work without internet connection.
So why not use fate-rsync, which is only run manually, when internet is 
available?

Best regards,
Andreas



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