diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 96a5e98330fcfc19ef34d51ff7d56c10bb4494e9..b76f9ce567d1cc647d087c488ff8874ca3c6210c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ Developer options (useful when working on FFmpeg itself):
                            (only applies to --disable-optimizations builds)
   --enable-osfuzz          Enable building fuzzer tool
   --libfuzzer=PATH         path to libfuzzer
+  --ignore-tests=TESTS     comma-separated list (without "fate-" prefix
+                           in the name) of tests whose result is ignored
 
 NOTE: Object files are built at the place where configure is launched.
 EOF
@@ -2209,6 +2211,7 @@ CMDLINE_SET="
     host_ld
     host_ldflags
     host_os
+    ignore_tests
     install
     ld
     ln_s
@@ -6617,6 +6620,13 @@ for type in decoder encoder hwaccel parser demuxer muxer protocol filter bsf ind
     echo
 done
 
+if test -n "$ignore_tests"; then
+    ignore_tests=$(echo $ignore_tests | tr ',' ' ')
+    echo "Ignored FATE tests:"
+    echo $ignore_tests | print_in_columns
+    echo
+fi
+
 echo "License: $license"
 
 echo "Creating configuration files ..."
@@ -6754,6 +6764,7 @@ VERSION_SCRIPT_POSTPROCESS_CMD=${VERSION_SCRIPT_POSTPROCESS_CMD}
 SAMPLES:=${samples:-\$(FATE_SAMPLES)}
 NOREDZONE_FLAGS=$noredzone_flags
 LIBFUZZER_PATH=$libfuzzer_path
+IGNORE_TESTS=$ignore_tests
 EOF
 
 map 'eval echo "${v}_FFLIBS=\$${v}_deps" >> ffbuild/config.mak' $LIBRARY_LIST
diff --git a/doc/fate_config.sh.template b/doc/fate_config.sh.template
index 56acb2667dbe303eab44c114404298b5c80fbecb..ab1bda45e4c3af03848d2cfd83b2fe35a17177b9 100644
--- a/doc/fate_config.sh.template
+++ b/doc/fate_config.sh.template
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ workdir=                                 # directory in which to do all the work
 #fate_recv="ssh -T fate@fate.ffmpeg.org" # command to submit report
 comment=                                 # optional description
 build_only=     # set to "yes" for a compile-only instance that skips tests
+ignore_tests=
 
 # the following are optional and map to configure options
 arch=
diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index 66d99106ff9a3d4ccda06aa032cc4eaf6a66ccde..ab83ae855d83ec89b05c58c0252e8b162c24a9be 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -212,12 +212,14 @@ FATE_UTILS = base64 tiny_psnr tiny_ssim audiomatch
 
 TOOL = ffmpeg
 
+$(addprefix fate-, $(IGNORE_TESTS)): REPORT=ignore
+
 fate:: $(FATE)
 
 $(FATE) $(FATE_TESTS-no): export PROGSUF = $(PROGSSUF)
 $(FATE) $(FATE_TESTS-no): $(FATE_UTILS:%=tests/%$(HOSTEXESUF))
 	@echo "TEST    $(@:fate-%=%)"
-	$(Q)$(SRC_PATH)/tests/fate-run.sh $@ "$(TARGET_SAMPLES)" "$(TARGET_EXEC)" "$(TARGET_PATH)" '$(CMD)' '$(CMP)' '$(REF)' '$(FUZZ)' '$(THREADS)' '$(THREAD_TYPE)' '$(CPUFLAGS)' '$(CMP_SHIFT)' '$(CMP_TARGET)' '$(SIZE_TOLERANCE)' '$(CMP_UNIT)' '$(GEN)' '$(HWACCEL)'
+	$(Q)$(SRC_PATH)/tests/fate-run.sh $@ "$(TARGET_SAMPLES)" "$(TARGET_EXEC)" "$(TARGET_PATH)" '$(CMD)' '$(CMP)' '$(REF)' '$(FUZZ)' '$(THREADS)' '$(THREAD_TYPE)' '$(CPUFLAGS)' '$(CMP_SHIFT)' '$(CMP_TARGET)' '$(SIZE_TOLERANCE)' '$(CMP_UNIT)' '$(GEN)' '$(HWACCEL)' '$(REPORT)'
 
 fate-list:
 	@printf '%s\n' $(sort $(FATE))
diff --git a/tests/fate-run.sh b/tests/fate-run.sh
index 3e8d43c93069bcd772c1ab80a8affc7485bd8450..0cf31e9477e49092b26a9a869eb864822e06b2ea 100755
--- a/tests/fate-run.sh
+++ b/tests/fate-run.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ size_tolerance=${14:-0}
 cmp_unit=${15:-2}
 gen=${16:-no}
 hwaccel=${17:-none}
+report_type=${18:-standard}
 
 outdir="tests/data/fate"
 outfile="${outdir}/${test}"
@@ -362,13 +363,17 @@ if test -e "$ref" || test $cmp = "oneline" || test $cmp = "grep" ; then
     esac
     cmperr=$?
     test $err = 0 && err=$cmperr
-    test $err = 0 || cat $cmpfile
+    if [ "$report_type" = "ignore" ]; then
+        test $err = 0 || echo "IGNORE  fate-${test}" && err=0
+    else
+        test $err = 0 || cat $cmpfile
+    fi
 else
     echo "reference file '$ref' not found"
     err=1
 fi
 
-if [ $err -eq 0 ]; then
+if [ $err -eq 0 ] && test $report_type = "standard" ; then
     unset cmpo erro
 else
     cmpo="$($base64 <$cmpfile)"
diff --git a/tests/fate.sh b/tests/fate.sh
index 3e106b7181a67facbfcaa47f9a9a7569c9aff10b..0edee7f22e3941ab1b13a38d22cd9d2a15dd21d9 100755
--- a/tests/fate.sh
+++ b/tests/fate.sh
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ configure()(
         --enable-gpl                                                    \
         --enable-memory-poisoning                                       \
         --enable-avresample                                             \
+        ${ignore_tests:+--ignore-tests="$ignore_tests"}                 \
         ${arch:+--arch=$arch}                                           \
         ${cpu:+--cpu="$cpu"}                                            \
         ${toolchain:+--toolchain="$toolchain"}                          \