[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix hang on demux of matroska files with 0byte-ints using 'mkv' demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:05:44PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:34:24PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Then there's the MAX_STREAMS issues that will not be fixed until the
> > > next major bump.
> > 
> > mplayer can bump it locally, especially with aurels spliting of different
> > ABI parts you can enable just the MAX_STREAMS. of course that would mean
> > no shared libav*, i prefer the times when shared wasnt supported in a way
> > that blocked moving forward
> 
> Hm, since that one is IIRC only an ABI but not an API change I'd think it
> should be simple to continue to support both.
> However, I'll shorten my main point: If in any way avoidable, a feature
> removal (even if questionable) is not a good way to fix a security issue.

My point was mostly that maintaining 2 redundant pieces of code costs extra
time and time tends to be in short supply. 

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