On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 08:54:34PM +0000, Derek Buitenhuis wrote: > On 31/12/2020 20:15, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > > One of the places where FFmpeg's inconsistent encoding caused me a > > problem was when I was operating on a Quicktime video. FFmpeg (or > > perhaps FFprobe) printed a 4-byte Quicktime tag literally to stdout. The > > tag's byte sequence was not valid UTF-8. It messed up the output. That > > tag, being arbitrary binary data, should have been escaped or printed in > > hex or otherwise represented in valid UTF-8. >
> We really should simply never be printing 'strings' from files without > any soft of validation - I consider this a bug. It's the same reason +1 [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
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