[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Type descriptors

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 08:54:34PM +0000, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 31/12/2020 20:15, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> > One of the places where FFmpeg's inconsistent encoding caused me a 
> > problem was when I was operating on a Quicktime video. FFmpeg (or 
> > perhaps FFprobe) printed a 4-byte Quicktime tag literally to stdout. The 
> > tag's byte sequence was not valid UTF-8. It messed up the output. That 
> > tag, being arbitrary binary data, should have been escaped or printed in 
> > hex or otherwise represented in valid UTF-8.
> 

> We really should simply never be printing 'strings' from files without
> any soft of validation - I consider this a bug. It's the same reason

+1

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