[FFmpeg-devel] [NASTY] Vividas hacks

[Måns Rullgård]

"Jeff Muizelaar" <jrmuizel at gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 21, 2007 8:10 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>
>> Ismail D?nmez <ismail at pardus.org.tr> writes:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Darn, one of these days I should patch git to only use colour on ttys.
>> I'm surprised nobody else has done it.
>
> Setting color to 'auto' like below makes git only use color on ttys afaics.
>
> [diff]
>         color = auto

Indeed.  What a shame it's not documented anywhere I've been able to
find.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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