[vlc] Re: Outgoing connexions...

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

VLC is open source software.  So you can see exactly what it is doing
(by reading the software... or, if you don't understand that kind of
stuff... ask someone who understands it to do it for you).


See ya

On 3/4/07, Laurent Jumet <laurent.jumet at skynet.be> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> > --
> >     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
> >     charles @ reptile.ca
> >     supercanadian @ gmail.com
>
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> Laurent Jumet
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    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

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    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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