[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer crashing, streaming from "ASX" xml files
adland
adland123 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 22 23:54:32 CET 2004
>
> I removed it for 2 reasons:
>
Can it be added back as a configure - compile time option
--enable-oldstyle-playlist-functionality or something
I would find it a useful feature in my daily use.
> 1. If you tried to plan a file MPlayer didn't recognize, it would run
> the playlist parser and then either hang forever (99% of the time)
> or crash. This SUCKS if you type "mplayer *" to play all files in a
> directory and there happens to be one file MPlayer doesn't handle.
I only play single files myself.
(On subject of hanging it hangs if waiting on enough bytes from
remote server in ds_fill_buffer or some like named function.
no timer here)
>
> 2. IMO passing untrusted data to the playlist parser is a security
> hole since the playlist parser is full of buggy string code that
> hangs and crashes and probably smashes the stack. Hopefully the
> MPlayer demuxers aren't quite that bad.
>
should we not just add fixes to code
-playlist seems to allow this code to be used anyway.
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