The News Review:
- DivX Player Subtitle Parsing Client-Side Buffer verflow Vulnerability
- Rivet Streams Mac Video Music Photos to Xbox 360
- S3 launches 4300E embedded graphics chip
- Best buy: Philips MCD988
- Loewe BluTech Vision Blu-ray Player
DivX Player Subtitle Parsing Client-Side Buffer verflow Vulnerability
FrSIRT – Apr 16, 2008
This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when parsing overly long subtitles which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted SRT file. Credits Vulnerability reported by securfrog. ChangeLog 2008-04-16 : Initial release.
Rivet Streams Mac Video Music Photos to Xbox 360
PC World – Apr 16, 2008
Features include the ability to stream music from your iTunes library and movies from user-defined folders (unprotected files of course) and streaming of iPhoto library images and images from folders your specify. You can organize movie and photo folders into subfolders by TV show genre or however you’d like to make content more module. It supports a variety of formats including AAC MP3 WMA H. 262 DIVX AVI WMV JPEG GIF TIFF RAW PSD PDF and others. System requirements call for Mac S X v10. 7MB hard disk space and a networked Xbox 360.
S3 launches 4300E embedded graphics chip
Inquirer – Apr 16, 2008
Designed for DirectX 10. 1 using the latest programmableunified shader architecture the 4300E also incorporates a programmable videoengine with media acceleration for H. 264 VC-1 AVS DivX and MPEG-2 HD. Connectivity includes HDMI with HDCP dual channel LVDS and dual-link DVI. A 4300E development kit will be available in June 2008. For more impressive numbers and press release puffery follow the L’INQ.
Best buy: Philips MCD988
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 17, 2008
1 system but you still get an awful lot for your money. The Philips MCD988 combines crisp Dolby surround sound with an excellent upscaling DVD player which can take standard-definition movies and sample and replicate pixels to give a picture that’s almost as good as try high-definition. It supports 720p and 1080i high-definition outputs and can play movie discs encoded in DivX and DVD+RW formats among others. It’s also a solid music centre with support for conventional music CDs as well as those encoded in WMA and MP3 formats. There’s also a radio tuner built in and a line-in port so you can hook it up to your iPod or another music-playing device. The sound quality is surprisingly good for such a small unit and it uses Dolby Virtual Speaker software to create a 5. 1-like surround sound experience.
Loewe BluTech Vision Blu-ray Player
TrustedReviews – Apr 17, 2008
Rounding up the sockets are separate stereo audio output and a USB socket for software updates. Also disappointing is that the BluTech Vision is a Profile 1. 0 player which means there’s no chance of accessing picture-in-picture features found on some recent Blu-ray releases (load Resident Evil: Apocalypse and the PIP feature is nowhere to be found) and even less chance of accessing BD Live features (the lack of Ethernet port is just one of several reasons why).