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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by hulitu on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:42AM (#45791112)
> despite the fact that approximately nobody was legitimately using JBIG2 in iMessage.

Then why it has been enabled ? Asking for a friend. /s

Unless Apple, ffmpeg has a reason to enable old codecs. If you only need a subset: configure; make; make install

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Re:FFmpeg Dealing with a Security Researcher by astrange on Sunday November 02, 2025 @11:25PM (#45795869)
> Then why it has been enabled ? Asking for a friend. /s

Because it's in the PDF spec, and you can't randomly disable parts of that.

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