Dangerous vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders. [Research Saturday]
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The History of Compression and Decompression With a Codec
I was in the desktop digital video world. And I remember a lot of these codecs coming to be. Can you give us a little bit of the back story here on what exactly is going on when it comes to compression and decompression with a Codec like this? Yes, so all our commodity devices do have specialized hardware as they described in order to encode and decode videos. Either they come as part of GPUs, NVIDIA and AMD, or as a separate co-processor on system on chips on devices. So how this process usually works is you have an MP4 video file that contains the H.264 encoded contents. The browser will first parse out the MP4 and then send the encoded
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