[FFmpeg-devel] [NASTY] Vividas hacks

Ismail Dönmez ismail
Thu Nov 22 01:31:45 CET 2007


Thursday 22 November 2007 Tarihinde 01:49:46 yazm??t?:
> Some company called Vividas is apparently using a variety of open (and
> close) source multimedia software, FFmpeg included, for nefarious
> activities on the net.  To their credit, they acknowledge the use of
> these libraries, and even provide some hacked FFmpeg sources:
>
> http://www.vividas.com/footer/opensource.html
>
> Curious to see just what they'd hacked, naturally not expecting
> anything useful, I grabbed their FFmpeg tree and started diffing.
> Needless to say, they've made a mess of it.  The files are a mix of
> revisions from April through August 2006.
>
> After some filtering (easy: look for tabs and trailing whitespace),
> the attached patch emerged.  I didn't attempt to analyse it at all,
> but I figured perhaps others here would like to see what they're up
> to.
>
> On a side note, someone should get to work breaking their
> "encryption".

You seem to have send a colorized diff, output looks ugly.

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