Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
This is interesting to me for reasons outside of anything to do with exploits or malware.  A while back I had a bit of a brain fart while playing with my Hue bulbs:  would there be a way to use the subtitle track for a video to encode time-controlled data that can be sent to/read by another application that sends these values to a set of Hue bulbs or similar devices for synchronized ambient lighting?I figured that subtitles were an obvious place to start because you can download them in small files, play them back alongside a video, and they are designed to be "timed out" to synchronize with a video already.I looked into it for a bit but never really found a way (within my abilities at least) to do anything like this from within a .srt file or similar.  I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has more info on how you might do more with that "framework" than displaying text on screen.