oss-fuzz VS ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

> because the ifunc code was breaking with all sorts of build options and obviously caused many problems with various sanitizers

for example, https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667

Have you tried Googles grpc fuzzer?

https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/blob/master/projects/grpc...

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-ex...

oss-fuzz: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz :

> We support the libFuzzer, AFL++, and Honggfuzz fuzzing engines in combination with Sanitizers, as well as ClusterFuzz, a distributed fuzzer execution environment and reporting tool.

> Currently, OSS-Fuzz supports C/C++, Rust, Go, Python, Java/JVM, and JavaScript code. Other languages supported by LLVM may work too. OSS-Fuzz supports fuzzing x86_64 and i386 builds.

I love fuzzing as a technique and use it quite regularly, but running AFL++ on even a single program occupies all threads of a high end AMD server for weeks. I'm running it locally so only paying for the electricity. If it was a cloud instance it would cost a small fortune. I think this is a reason it is not used more widely.

I will note that Google have a programme for doing fuzz testing on open source projects using computer from their cloud: https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/

Yes, mosh has fuzz tests in oss-fuzz [1].

[1] https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/mosh

We will explore how Jazzer is used to automatically generate malicious inputs for Java programs, and how it compares to Symflower, which can automatically generate unit tests to uncover bugs and errors in your code. With the help of Jazzer, many bugs - some of them even in the OpenJDK - were found already. Also, as of March 2021, Jazzer is officially part of OSS-Fuzz, Google's cloud fuzzing engine. It should be noted that Jazzer is a pure "bug detection" utility that finds reproducers for errors in user code. Symflower can do the same, but provides additional functionalities to boost developer productivity, like generating high coverage unit tests and providing test templates for the software developer or tester.

The FFmpeg libraries are possibly the worst thing I have ever worked with in my life. I have never been more afraid to use a library than this one. This tutorial is very outdated, eg. `AVPicture`, which is used throughout, is completely deprecated and removed from the library, so you will simply encounter linker errors trying to follow this tutorial.

FFmpeg libraries randomly break themselves, so if you find an answer from a few years ago, chances are it's useless. Want to free an AVPacket? `av_free_packet` is deprecated,. You can use `av_packet_unref` (but there's _also_ a function named `av_packet_free` that doesn't do quite the same thing).

Most questions on Stack Overflow or related platforms have no replies, the library has literally zero documentation, it has very little error handling, which means if you're a bad C developer like me you are required to recompile FFmpeg with debugging information unstripped so you can trace segfaults in gdb.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial/ is a better and more up-to-date tutorial than this one.

I found this . I think you need an older version of ffmpeg to use the program, try to write it under the AUR to see if the mantainer is still active and knows the problem.

I think you're supposed to read the header files? I have no idea how people write ffmpeg stuff. The only good tutorial I've seen is: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Much of it I learned from An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (outdated, but the core idea persists), and from ffmpeg-libav-tutorial.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial#learn-ffmpeg-libav-the-hard-way

If you are not familiar with libav, ffmpeg-libav-tutorial is a great introduction.

Try this tutorial: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Btw, if you want to encode anything higher than 1080p60 using the Videocore VI, you'll need to use an external library like ffmpeg. There is a good tutorial for ffmpeg too - https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial . This should teach you how to encode the raw video stream you get from the camera into a codec of your choice.