[MPlayer-users] playlist suggestion

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Joey Parrish wrote:
> On 4/30/07, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:26:45 +0100
>> "Robert Parker" <theparkers.mailbox at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why doesnt mplayer just recognise known file extensions as play list
>>> files ?
>> Security.
>>
>> For something like a browser plug-in, where you have untrusted content,
>> I would suggest parsing the playlist with your own program, and giving
>> only the final result to MPlayer.
> 
> Are the MPlayer playlist parsers inherently insecure?  Is there a good
> reason not to fix them?
> 
> --Joey

Just as a side note, GNOME MPlayer will detect some playlists [pls, asx,
simple http and rtps] so you can start it with

gnome-mplayer media.asx

And it will know to pass the -playlist option to mplayer before the
media. It does minimal parsing of the stream to determine if it should
pass that option or not.

Kevin

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