Won't seeking in a file that big still take time? (I'm assuming most of
these files are around 600-700mb) 

I guess we could take the beginning of the file; but is there much to
be gained from using that instead of the filename? Are people renaming
files a lot more than I do? :)

Aubin

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:10:18PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:53:21PM +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> > 
> > MD5 takes too much time.
> 
> So don't MD5 sum the whole file.  Use a formula to extract some
> portion(s) of the movie and MD5 sum that.  The easiest would be to
> just take some beginning portion, but you could add a trailing portion
> and/or portions from the middle.
> 
> b.
> 
> -- 
> Brian J. Murrell




-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! 
Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and 
the chance of winning an Apple iPod:
http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en
_______________________________________________
Freevo-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel

Reply via email to