[vlc] Re: Outgoing connexions...

[Laurent Jumet]

Hello Charles !

"Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is possible.
> One possibility is that certain video or audio formats are actually
> playlists.  (And contain references to other video or audio files to
> download.)

    Is this the only outgoing connexions I would expect, or should I expect some privacy breaking?




>>     If I tell my FireWall to let VLC.EXE go out, in some cases it
>> requests
>> several outgoing connexions.
>>     One of those is of course dedicated to get the video or sound file.
>>
>>     But is it possible to the video itself to have scripts that request an
>> outgoing connexion to unwanted sites?
>>
>>     I'm using XP and Opera.
>>
>> --
>> Laurent Jumet
>>       KeyID: 0xCFAF704C


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