[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] avformat/tty: Remove .txt from the extensions as it more likely is not a multimedia related file

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 00:47:36 EEST 2018


2018-09-11 23:42 GMT+02:00, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>:
> On 9/11/18, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2018-05-12 18:33 GMT+02:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
>>> Iam not sure if this is a good idea or not but it may make some
>>> attacks harder. So throwing this out for discussions ...
>>
>> I am definitely not objecting but I doubt that this patch can make
>> any attack harder.
>> The main "advantage" of the patch imo is that it stops FFmpeg
>> from decoding txt files.
>
> FFmpeg can still decode txt files, just not automatically.

Sorry, I meant "by default".

Carl Eugen


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