[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer crashing, streaming from "ASX" xml files

[adland]

> 
> I removed it for 2 reasons:
> 

Can it be added back as a configure - compile time option

--enable-oldstyle-playlist-functionality or something

I would find it a useful feature in my daily use.

> 1. If you tried to plan a file MPlayer didn't recognize, it would run
>    the playlist parser and then either hang forever (99% of the time)
>    or crash. This SUCKS if you type "mplayer *" to play all files in a
>    directory and there happens to be one file MPlayer doesn't handle.

I only play single files myself.
(On subject of hanging it hangs if waiting on enough bytes from 
remote server in ds_fill_buffer or some like named function. 
no timer here)

> 
> 2. IMO passing untrusted data to the playlist parser is a security
>    hole since the playlist parser is full of buggy string code that
>    hangs and crashes and probably smashes the stack. Hopefully the
>    MPlayer demuxers aren't quite that bad.
> 

should we not just add fixes to code
-playlist seems to allow this code to be used anyway.