Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
by lmm on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:24AM
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What bothers me are the crashes. A crash probably translates into an arbitrary code execution when a malicious file exploits it.
I've seen files that mplayer won't play that VLC will (though I've seen more of the opposite), but when mplayer can't parse a file it tends to simply not play it rather than crashing. So I'm not going to use VLC on files from the untrusted internet.
I've seen files that mplayer won't play that VLC will (though I've seen more of the opposite), but when mplayer can't parse a file it tends to simply not play it rather than crashing. So I'm not going to use VLC on files from the untrusted internet.