[FFmpeg-devel] [qt-faststart] Ever get

[Gilles Dubuc]

Mike Melanson <mike <at> multimedia.cx> writes:

> 
> matthieu castet wrote:
> > May the file has a lot's FTYP atoms.
> > The code does malloc without checking if ftyp_atom!=NULL in a loop.
> > This can lead to a great memory DOS for broken files...
> 
> Interesting theory. Per my understanding, a file should have, at most,
> one FTYP that's at the beginning. But I guess there is nothing to stop a
> muxer from adding more.
> 

I'm having the same problem, running the latest ffmpeg codec from SVN on a
CentOS machine. The mov in question is encoded with ffmpeg itself. I can provide
a sample video file if necessary.