[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix hang on demux of matroska files with 0byte-ints using 'mkv' demuxer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:34:24PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Then there's the MAX_STREAMS issues that will not be fixed until the
> > next major bump.
> 
> mplayer can bump it locally, especially with aurels spliting of different
> ABI parts you can enable just the MAX_STREAMS. of course that would mean
> no shared libav*, i prefer the times when shared wasnt supported in a way
> that blocked moving forward

Hm, since that one is IIRC only an ABI but not an API change I'd think it
should be simple to continue to support both.
However, I'll shorten my main point: If in any way avoidable, a feature
removal (even if questionable) is not a good way to fix a security issue.