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authorMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2016-11-18 17:00:30 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2016-12-10 22:42:03 +0100
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avformat: Add max_streams option
This allows user apps to stop OOM due to excessive number of streams Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> (cherry picked from commit 1296f844955e513d19051c962656f829479d4fb9) Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ For example to separate the fields with newlines and indention:
ffprobe -dump_separator "
" -i ~/videos/matrixbench_mpeg2.mpg
@end example
+
+@item max_streams @var{integer} (@emph{input})
+Specifies the maximum number of streams. This can be used to reject files that
+would require too many resources due to a large number of streams.
@end table
@c man end FORMAT OPTIONS