[FFmpeg-devel] Video decoding error asks me to upload video to non-existing site ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/

Thilo Borgmann thilo.borgmann at mail.de
Tue Jan 31 14:26:03 EET 2017


Am 31.01.17 um 13:17 schrieb wm4:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:09:07 +0100
> Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 31.01.17 um 13:00 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
>>> On 1/31/17, DogFilm <videobrain at gmail.com> wrote:  
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a video here that will make ffmpeg hang and eat all CPU without
>>>> doing any actual work and produces a lot of errors. It is quite a normal
>>>> video downloaded from a public media library, nothing special.
>>>>
>>>> The error message asks me to upload the file to
>>>> ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/ and report here about that error.
>>>> Unfortunately that ftp server does not seem to exist.  
>>
>> Thanks for reporting back to us.
>>
>>
>>>> Where should I upload that ffmpeg-killer-video?  
>>>
>>> Anywhere from where it can be easily downloadable.
>>>   
>>>>
>>>> Also should I file the missing ftp server as a bug?  
>>>
>>> Nope.  
>>
>> We mention ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/ in several places. If it is not the place to upload things then these messages should be changed accordingly and the preferred way to upload samples need to be documented.
> 
> Or just add that place back, and/or put a redirect?

Or whatever necessary but in the end the message we show should actually be a valid way for the user to proceed. 

-Thilo



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