Hi Traneptora

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 06:35:07PM -0500, Leo Izen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/28/25 4:44 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 10:12:30PM +0200, Jan Ekström wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM Michael Niedermayer
> > > <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe fixes: 11435
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Do I understand correctly that the root issue that's being attempted
> > > to be fixed by the initial patch set is that unusual demuxers were
> > > possible to have been probed and opened through the HLS meta demuxer?
> > > In that case I would say that instead of trying to make very nebulous
> > > and easily breakable extension based checking, maybe this demuxer
> > > should just limit its default usable input formats?
> > > 
> > > To my knowledge the officially utilized container formats for HLS are
> > > MPEG-TS, MP4-likes (fragmented mp4) and raw audio formats such as AAC,
> > > MP3 or AC-3. One could check what hls.js or ExoPlayer support, and
> > > that should be a generally mostly encompassing thing that does not
> > > depend on what extensions are in use. Adding an AVOption to add
> > > additional formats without code changes would then allow for some
> > > outliers to be added by users.
> > 
> > there is extended M3U
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
> > 
> > that allows a wide range of things in it
> > 
> > our hls demuxer can read these, if we limit to mpeg-ts/mp4 we would remove
> > support for these.
> > 
> 
> From reading this, it seems like we're using the same demuxer for both HLS
> streams (specified informationally in RFC 8216) as well as for generic m3u
> playlists, and changes to the HLS implementation for security reasons also
> change the M3U demuxer.
> 

> Why don't we just separate this into two different demuxers/protocols?

yes, i was thinking the same, we should do this for git master

thx


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