On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, July 1, 2012 1:55:55 PM UTC+3, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
>>
>> I was interested to read this background on ffmpeg & libav.
>>
>>  http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html
>>
>> I don't know whether this is an unbiased or authoritative account, but
>> it was still interesting to me just to find out about the split & its
>> contentiousness.
>
>
> There should be a conflict point somewhere, a conflict of interest. Let me
> turn on a paranoid bit. If I am not mistaken ffmpeg and libav are both
> C/C++. C/C++ is exploitable. I somebody is looking into a way to exploit
> many systems to add them to botnet or steal private keys secretly (which is
> more interesting nowadays)  -  attacking ffmpeg is a valid choice IMHO. Now
> avbin == Debian/Ubuntu, ffmpeg == everything else. What I am trying to say?
> Somebody should start writing non-GPL audio/video decompressors in pure
> Python and companies should invest in PyPy to make it beat those ancient
> technologies. Then the Earth will be safe again. =)
>
> Of course looking how codec processes one frame in n seconds could be
> boring, but what if the whole decoding process can be visualized with
> pyglet? I'd be interesting to see how video structure look like from inside
> and play with it instead of drilling through specifications and headers..

I would love to see your visualization of the decoding process, if you
ever develop it.  :-)

~ Nathan

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