2007/7/27, Josh Coalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > But how is it possible then the FLAC encoder allows files which have > > a bad > > resulting MD5 to be encoded? Is it because of the bad ram, ... this > > incorrect MD5 is not detected during encoding? > > it happens like this, x.wav gets encoded with flac.exe on a machine > with bad ram. flac.exe reads some audio data from x.wav into memory > and encodes it. samples are buffered to md5 checksummer which writes > intermediate checksum to bad memory. md5 is corrupted but samples > were encoded ok. the user will not know unless the --verify option > was used during encoding.
Is it also possible the samples themself get corrupted, because they are too (just like the md5) written to the memory for encoding them?
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