1 FFmpeg's bug/patch/feature request tracker manual
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8 FFmpeg uses Roundup for tracking issues, new issues and changes to
9 existing issues can be done through a web interface and through email.
10 It is possible to subscribe to individual issues by adding yourself to the
11 nosy list or to subscribe to the ffmpeg-issues mailing list which receives
12 a mail for every change to every issue. Replies to such mails will also
13 be properly added to the respective issue.
14 (the above does all work already after light testing)
15 The subscription URL for the ffmpeg-issues list is:
16 http://live.polito/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-issues
17 The URL of the webinterface of the tracker is:
18 http(s)://roundup.ffmpeg/roundup/ffmpeg/
19 Note the URLs in this document are obfuscated, you must append the top level
20 domain for non-profit organizations to the tracker, and of Italy to the
25 There is a mailing list to which all new issues and changes to existing issues
26 are sent. You can subscribe through
27 http://live.polito/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-issues
28 Replies to messages there will have their text added to the specific issues.
29 Attachments will be added as if they had been uploaded via the web interface.
30 You can change the status, substatus, topic, ... by changing the subject in
32 Re: [issue94] register_avcodec and allcodecs.h [type=patch;status=open;substatus=approved]
33 Roundup will then change things as you requested and remove the [...] from
34 the subject before forwarding the mail to the mailing list.
37 NOTE: issue = (bug report || patch || feature request)
42 An error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in FFmpeg or libav* that
43 prevents it from behaving as intended.
46 Request of support for encoding or decoding of a new codec, container
48 Request of support for more, less or plain different output or behavior
49 where the current implementation cannot be considered wrong.
52 A patch as generated by diff which conforms to the patch submission and
59 Bugs and patches which deal with data loss and security issues.
60 No feature request can be critical.
63 Bugs which make FFmpeg unusable for a significant number of users, and
65 Examples here might be completely broken MPEG-4 decoding or a build issue
67 While broken 4xm decoding or a broken OS/2 build would not be important,
68 the separation to normal is somewhat fuzzy.
69 For feature requests this priority would be used for things many people
76 Bugs and patches about things like spelling errors, "mp2" instead of
77 "mp3" being shown and such.
78 Feature requests about things few people want or which do not make a big
82 Something that is desirable to have but that there is no urgency at
83 all to implement, e.g. something completely cosmetic like a website
84 restyle or a personalized doxy template or the FFmpeg logo.
85 This priority is not valid for bugs.
100 Type/Status/Substatus:
103 Initial state of new bugs, patches and feature requests submitted by
107 Issues which have been briefly looked at and which did not look outright
109 This implicates that no real more detailed state applies yet. Conversely,
110 the more detailed states below implicate that the issue has been briefly
114 Bugs, patches or feature requests which are duplicates.
115 Note that patches dealing with the same thing in a different way are not
117 Note, if you mark something as duplicate, do not forget setting the
118 superseder so bug reports are properly linked.
121 Bugs caused by user errors, random ineligible or otherwise nonsense stuff.
123 */closed/needs_more_info
124 Issues for which some information has been requested by the developers,
125 but which has not been provided by anyone within reasonable time.
128 Bugs which have been reproduced.
131 Bugs which have been analyzed and where it is understood what causes them
132 and which exact chain of events triggers them. This analysis should be
133 available as a message in the bug report.
134 Note, do not change the status to analyzed without also providing a clear
135 and understandable analysis.
136 This state implicates that the bug either has been reproduced or that
137 reproduction is not needed as the bug is already understood.
139 bug/open/needs_more_info
140 Bug reports which are incomplete and or where more information is needed
141 from the submitter or another person who can provide it.
142 This state implicates that the bug has not been analyzed or reproduced.
143 Note, the idea behind needs_more_info is to offload work from the
144 developers to the users whenever possible.
147 Bugs which have to the best of our knowledge been fixed.
150 Bugs which we will not fix. Possible reasons include legality, high
151 complexity for the sake of supporting obscure corner cases, speed loss
152 for similarly esoteric purposes, et cetera.
153 This also means that we would reject a patch.
154 If we are just too lazy to fix a bug then the correct state is open
155 and unassigned. Closed means that the case is closed which is not
156 the case if we are just waiting for a patch.
158 bug/closed/works_for_me
159 Bugs for which sufficient information was provided to reproduce but
160 reproduction failed - that is the code seems to work correctly to the
161 best of our knowledge.
164 Patches which have been reviewed and approved by a developer.
165 Such patches can be applied anytime by any other developer after some
166 reasonable testing (compile + regression tests + does the patch do
167 what the author claimed).
169 patch/open/needs_changes
170 Patches which have been reviewed and need changes to be accepted.
173 Patches which have been applied.
175 patch/closed/rejected
176 Patches which have been rejected.
178 feature_request/open/needs_more_info
179 Feature requests where it is not clear what exactly is wanted
180 (these also could be closed as invalid ...).
182 feature_request/closed/implemented
183 Feature requests which have been implemented.
185 feature_request/closed/wont_implement
186 Feature requests which will not be implemented. The reasons here could
187 be legal, philosophical or others.
189 Note, please do not use type-status-substatus combinations other than the
190 above without asking on ffmpeg-dev first!
192 Note2, if you provide the requested info do not forget to remove the
193 needs_more_info substate.
197 A topic is a tag you should add to your issue in order to make grouping them
201 issues in libavcodec/*
204 issues in libavformat/*
207 issues in libavutil/*
213 issues in or related to ffmpeg.c
216 issues in or related to ffplay.c
219 issues in or related to ffserver.c
222 issues in or related to configure/Makefile
225 bugs which were working in a past revision
228 issues related to our issue tracker