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Comment by preg_match

2 days ago

FFmpeg is extremely complex software, with an extreme (and necessary) focus on performance, that exists in an extremely complex domain.

It’s not just FFmpeg. Apple has had more vulnerabilities in image and video decoders than I can count. That stuff is just very hard, and FFmpeg is doing more than anyone else.

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nulltype  2 days ago

For the implemented formats, wuffs is safer and also often faster: https://github.com/google/wuffs

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