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I get a kick out of the fact that they recommend not using FFMPEG but they say that Chrome uses it.
by IceyEC 13y ago
I get a kick out of the fact that they recommend not using FFMPEG but they say that Chrome uses it.
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- abraham 13y ago> I get a kick out of the fact that they recommend not using FFMPEG More specifically Google is recommending you don't use it to "process untrusted media files"
- ID_HOME 13y agoI don't trust any media files... Especially ones from Google who are doing most of the research... seriously though, media zero-days are unheard of, probably because they would be extremely valuable.
- fletchowns 13y agoThey aren't just flat out not recommending using FFmpeg, just that you need to take appropriate measures when dealing with untrusted media sources.
- jcampbell1 13y agoChrome is probably using a subset that represents 2% of FFMpeg. I'd guess they have thoroughly audited the code paths that are actually used to decode about 10 media different that chrome supports. For instance, one fix mentioned was a fix the demuxer for .4xm files. 4xm is a proprietary container format for a now defunct company. Chrome would never have to worry about this bug, because it doesn't need to support playback of .4xm files.