[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/avio: Remove url options parsing

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 19.01.2016 22:13, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> From: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> 
> This feature is not know much or used much AFAIK, and it might be helpfull in
> exploits.
> No specific case is known where it can be used in an exploit though

I have no idea how widely used this feature is, but it is mentioned in
doc/protocols.texi:
"
Extract a chapter from a DVD VOB file (start and end sectors obtained
externally and multiplied by 2048):
@example
subfile,,start,153391104,end,268142592,,:/media/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB
@end example

Play an AVI file directly from a TAR archive:
@example
subfile,,start,183241728,end,366490624,,:archive.tar
@end example
"

So at least this documentation would need updating.

Also mentioning this in the Changelog/RELEASE_NOTES would be good.

Best regards,
Andreas