Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users

Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by jbverschoor on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:13AM (#14409403)

You actually don't NEED a lot of these things I'm perfectly fine with a default / embedded font. I don't have an optical drive A database can be in the local app storage. I'm fine opening a subtitle file myself. Why would I need IPC? Why would I need to unzip anything? If it's subtitle files, it can be done in-memory. Are you sure we need low-level audio?

I don't have a remote, so I'd like it to be disabled by default. I don't need any access to the network.

etc. etc. etc

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by stordoff on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:44AM (#14409566)

Those restrictions work for you, but would make VLC borderline useless for me.

> I don't need any access to the network.

90+% of what I use it for comes from my NAS or the Internet.

> I don't have an optical drive

Most of the rest is from optical discs.

> I'm perfectly fine with a default / embedded font. [...] I'm fine opening a subtitle file myself.

It's _fine_ but far from ideal. Both are useful quality of life features.

> Why would I need to unzip anything?

Non-essential, but being able to play video from a ZIP is a useful feature.

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by Brockenstein on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:16AM (#14409751)

Let's play, "why isn't my use case the only use case."

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by oblio on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:18AM (#14409426)

Congratulations, you don't need those things. What about the other 19.999.999* users? Are you sure they don't need any of those things? :)

* Arbitrary number.

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by thirdsun on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:26AM (#14409476)

That's you. Most users expect one or more of the other mentioned features.

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