[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] don't trust avi riff tag end

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:35:21PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $subject,
> 
> This should fix demuxing avi generated through streaming and read
> through streaming.
> 
> In the later case, RIFF tag end is 0, and when reading url_fsize will
> return 0.
> 
> Like ffmpeg -i <file> -f avi - | ffmpeg -i -
> 
> Any problem with this ?

fsize is used to detect damaged chunks, with INT64_MAX damaged chunks
are accepted and can lead to skiping of the whole file instead of searching
for the next valid chunk

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