[MPlayer-users] playlist suggestion

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/30/07, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:26:45 +0100
> "Robert Parker" <theparkers.mailbox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why doesnt mplayer just recognise known file extensions as play list
> > files ?
>
> Security.
>
> For something like a browser plug-in, where you have untrusted content,
> I would suggest parsing the playlist with your own program, and giving
> only the final result to MPlayer.

Are the MPlayer playlist parsers inherently insecure?  Is there a good
reason not to fix them?

--Joey