Bug#831591: ffmpeg: kodi crash

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Carl,

2016-09-06 11:39 GMT+02:00 Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>:
> Hi Bálint!
>
>> I don't have the test file.
>
> In this case I suggest to close the relevant tickets:
> We cannot reproduce, there is no backtrace and no bisect.

Tobias has test files as he wrote in #832364 and he would
share it privately.

>
> Since FFmpeg has made three point releases with the ABI
> that is apparently incompatible with (old) Kodi, it is
> very unlikely that it will be changed again (we would
> likely brake mpv that intentionally uses the invalid API).

>From practical POV I'm OK with closing this bug since it does
not affect unstable nor testing. Knowing what broke could be
interesting for FFmpeg devs and in case the change is reverted
I could update ffmpeg in jessie-backports without recompiling
kodi. This is why I have not back-ported latest ffmpeg yet.


>
> Slightly related: More that half of the open tickets
> concerning FFmpeg in Debian either contain no samples to
> reproduce or will not be fixed or were never reproducible.
> If another FFmpeg developer were interested in fixing
> bugs reported here it would be very difficult for him to
> find something useful due to the low snr.

Those can be marked with the moreinfo tag and IMO it is
OK to close them after a reasonable amount of time if
the originator is asked to provide a test file but she/he
did not.

Thanks for helping in managing the FFmpeg bugs in Debian!

Cheers,
Balint