Welcome to LWN.net, where subscribers get access to the best news from the Linux and free software communities. In a surprising revelation, users are unaware of the complexity involved in video playback due to intricate engineering in compression and decompression of video data. Daniel Almeida discusses the challenges faced by video codecs and proposes using Rust to improve driver security and reliability in the Linux media community. By converting error-prone C code to Rust incrementally, Almeida aims to enhance the safety and effectiveness of codec libraries and driver code. The potential of Rust in the kernel is explored through insightful discussions on transitioning to Rust for codec development.
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