[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Check if free atoms in mov are actually moov atoms

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Robert Krüger <krueger <at> lesspain.de> writes:

> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 March 2014 01:29:13 pm Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> ag.or.at> writes:
> >> > Attached patch fixes ticket #1551, this is how vlc decodes
> >> > the sample.
> >>
> > New patch attached.
>
> Do I understand it correctly that this now happens by default? This
> might be a problem for api users who use libav* to determine if
> something is a valid file, because it will now treat an invalid file
> as a valid file.

This was FFmpeg's behaviour since forever, think of 
transport streams without PAT/PMT, avi files without 
index or wav files that don't conform to the spec.

You will also find that decoders accept invalid (audio 
or video) streams, often without any warning.

Carl Eugen