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omnicognate
78 days ago
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
AIUI, (lib)ffmpeg is used by practically everything that does anything with video, including such definitely-security-sensitive things as Chrome, which people use to play untrusted content all the time.
godshatter
78 days ago
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Then maybe the Google chrome devs should submit a PR to ffmpeg.
walletdrainer
77 days ago
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Chrome devs frequently do just that, Chrome just doesn’t enable this codec.
omnicognate
78 days ago
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Sure.
And
fund them.
cogman10
78 days ago
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hmm, didn't realize chrome was using ffmpeg in the background. That definitely makes it more dangerous than I supposed.
Looks like firefox does the same.
conradev
78 days ago
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Firefox has moved some parsers to Rust:
https://github.com/mozilla/mp4parse-rust
rebelwebmaster
78 days ago
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Firefox also does a lot of media decoding in a separate process.
xxs
77 days ago
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Pretty much anything that has any video uses the library (incl. youtube)
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