[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Finish new iteration APIs

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 22 February 2018 at 18:31, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> > We have IIRC like 400 decoders, most are odd/rare/fringe and its a valid
> > request to hard disable these at runtime process wide.
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> Maybe we should just disable them by default, instead of forcing the
> user to play security russian roulette with them?
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I really don't think that's a good idea. With no reason to improve them
most will bitrot and people who need to decode them in the future will need
to compile ancient versions which probably won't work without changes. The
whole point of the library is to have something which can handle pretty
much everything out of the box.