[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] tiff: remove tiff type check for ICC profiles

[Lynne]

Sep 5, 2020, 20:23 by dev at lynne.ee:

> Although the ICC specifications say to check for this, libtiff doesn't
> and neither does any other TIFF implementation, and the TIFF specs
> say that Photoshop has a different way to encapsulate ICC profiles,
> and are asking for advice on how to deal with it.
>
> So basically, photoshop puts a different type than what's specified,
> no other implementation checks for this, we do because we tried to
> follow the specs although its harmless to not, and ran into this bug
> because we didn't know about it.
>
> Patch attached.
>

Patch applied and bug closed.