Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-05-09 01:25:00) > On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 10:42:56PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote: > > Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-05-03 14:30:38) > > > Its unexpected that a .avi or other "standard" file turns into a playlist. > > > The goal of this patch is to avoid this unexpected behavior and possible > > > privacy or security differences. > > > > > > > I very much dislike this approach. > > What else do you suggest ? > > We could have a configuration option that specifies one > or more trusted directories/files/urls. And everything outside would be > limited to selfcontained files > The average user can put * as trusted url if thats what they want > While someone who cares about their privacy and security could restrict > that with little effort to the place where they store their music and > videos which they know is ok. While OTOH still throwing random URLs > at ffmpeg without expecting overly unexpected results (not considering bugs) > Thats similar to how some office software can handle macros. > > Or do you have some other suggestion ? >
I don't see what actual problem is this supposed to address. The commit message mentions some vague "possible issues", but * this seems like the wrong layer for this kind of policy decisions * I think there needs to be a clearly defined thread model before we can discuss what the right solution is -- Anton Khirnov _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".