[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Disable faad, lower priority of decoder below avcodec

[Alex Converse]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:37:24PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote :
>> Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:36:23 +0200, Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> About libmpeg2 iirc fenrir said our decoder had features that ffmpeg
>> >> decoder hasn't.
>> >
>> > It does.
>>
>> What features?
>
> Crashing randomly on not-perfect streams.
>
> Although, I have to say that the libmpeg2 decoding feels a bit sharper.
> And a few other people noticed it too.
> Still crashing way too much. There is a good reason that lavc has now
> the priority.
>

We know of this crasher: http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1872

Samples that crash elsewhere would be appreciated,

--Alex