FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher

Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by ls612 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @10:41PM (#45787464)

I think that the x264 and hevc codecs are much more battle tested and a 0day for them would be worth enough that nobody would bother using it on random torrenters.

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by IshKebab on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:39AM (#45788786)

But you don't need to use a popular codec, because all codecs are enabled by default.

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by ls612 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:38AM (#45791078)

Yeah but most public trackers will give lots of side eye to torrents that contain an mkv that isn’t in one of those two formats.

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by IshKebab on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:27PM (#45793595)

Really? You think trackers download files and analyse their contents before listing them? I don't.

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by ls612 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @06:58PM (#45794519)

TPB? No. But 1337 and rutracker definitely do basic quality control. Nothing like a private tracker but they take down things like .mkv.lnk and similar.

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by ValdikSS on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @12:21PM (#45813479)

You can report viruses on TPB's forum, there's usually entire accounts which upload viruses which are easy to find.

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