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authorRamiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com>2010-01-20 02:26:32 +0000
committerRamiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com>2010-01-20 02:26:32 +0000
commit4cb93f5171cfc91a70ecf47b273b96072cba8699 (patch)
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Update documentation for make test.
Originally committed as revision 21343 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -414,13 +414,18 @@ The regression tests build a synthetic video stream and a synthetic
audio stream. These are then encoded and decoded with all codecs or
formats. The CRC (or MD5) of each generated file is recorded in a
result file. A 'diff' is launched to compare the reference results and
-the result file.
+the result file. The output is checked immediately after each test
+has run.
The regression tests then go on to test the FFserver code with a
limited set of streams. It is important that this step runs correctly
as well.
-Run 'make test' to test all the codecs and formats.
+Run 'make test' to test all the codecs and formats. Commands like
+'make regtest-mpeg2' can be used to run a single test. By default,
+make will abort if any test fails. To run all tests regardless,
+use make -k. To get a more verbose output, use 'V=1 make test' or
+'V=2 make test'.
Run 'make fulltest' to test all the codecs, formats and FFserver.