VideoLAN is taking these revelations very seriously but it is important to note that the leaked document does not describe a vulnerability that is remotely exploitable, nor is present in a normal VLC installation.

dav1d is an AV1 (video) decoder Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Videolabs / Videolan Ronald S. Bultje, Two Orioles / FFmpeg

Cette nouvelle fonctionnalité,présentedepuis la version 0.5 de VLC, permet en particulier de diffuser des flux MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 et des DVDs. Le développement d’une fonction de transcoding …

Engineering Manager in Android TL of Native Tools and Libraries team Compilers, toolchains, external libraries, NDK, etc. Co-author of AV1 format, worked on Daala and Theora before that Member of …