Title: Unclosed special characters in VTT files can cause infinite loops · Issue #719 · ableplayer/ableplayer · GitHub
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Description: Certain characters have special handling in VTT files, like { or [. They're interpreted as markers in cues. If the open and close brackets are in different cues, this creates a loop that can't complete. I'm thinking that if these charact...
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