[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libschroedingerdec: fix leaking of framewithpts

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Wed Nov 16 22:58:46 EET 2016


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:46:59PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 16.11.2016 15:14, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 01:48:05PM +0100, wm4 wrote:
> >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:21:34 +0100
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 09:56:16PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> >>>> However, considering the sheer amount of crashes in libschroedinger and
> >>>> that it's apparently not maintained anymore, it might be better to
> >>>> simply remove this decoder.  
> >>>
> >>> id say decoders which crash should be marked as
> >>> AV_CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL
> >>
> >> Experimental implies it's early work in progress which will stabilize
> >> later.
> >>
> >> libschroedinger is completely dead, and it's entirely possible that
> >> you're the person who cares most about it on this planet.
> >>
> > 
> >> Should we introduce a AV_CODEC_CAP_TRASH flag?
> > 
> > i dont know, but i am not against a flag marking decoders with
> > security issues or unmaintained code.
> > i think we should use a different term than "trash", we should not
> > call other peoples code anything offensive or insulting.
> 
> Maybe AV_CODEC_CAP_DEPRECATED?
> 
> But I'm not sure if adding this for just one decoder makes much sense.

i dont know either but AV_CODEC_CAP_DEPRECATED sounds reasonable to me

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