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by cogman10 212 days ago
hmm, didn't realize chrome was using ffmpeg in the background. That definitely makes it more dangerous than I supposed.

Looks like firefox does the same.

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Firefox has moved some parsers to Rust: https://github.com/mozilla/mp4parse-rust
Firefox also does a lot of media decoding in a separate process.
Pretty much anything that has any video uses the library (incl. youtube)