[libre-riscv-dev] GStreamer and RUST

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 22:57 Immanuel, Yehowshua U <yimmanuel3 at gatech.edu>
wrote:

> Eventually when we get around to the VPU, we’ll be working closely with
> Gstreamer, which, has new rust bindings available.
>

Yay! Hoping that a lot of their format parsers/decoders will be rewritten
in Rust, because those seem to have a disproportionate number of
memory-safety vulnerabilities due to being written in C and handling tons
of obscure and complex formats. Video files that can remotely take over
your computer are never a good idea.

Jacob