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godelskitoday at 12:33 AM0 repliesview on HN

FWIW I tried replicating it and didn't get the same result. I end up with a failed conversion, exit code 69[0]. Same thing when I run with my installed version of ffmpeg.

But I think Google would still be concerned. Even if they're running ffmpeg in a sandbox you can escape sandboxes. The sandbox is a security layer, not what makes the thing safe. You should be using it as a layer of defense for unknown vulns, and try to resolve vulns. I mean Google is much more likely to have an attacker trying to chain a vuln with a sandbox escape than the average user.

Btw:

  ffmpeg -codecs | cat | grep SANM 2&>/dev/null
  ffmpeg version n8.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
  ... ffmpeg flags ...
  D.V.L. sanm                 LucasArts SANM/SMUSH video
So my version does have that codec, as others are reporting.

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