Re: md5 checksum
Josh Coalson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.compression.flac.user |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
--- Harry Sack <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > > here some questions about the md5 checksum: > > - what happens when the md5 checksum of the decoded audio is > different > of the internally stored checksum due to file corruption ? Will > playing/decoding still be possible (with some error frames) or will > playing /decoding be not possible at all (so all audio data is lost)? md5 does not affect decoding at all, it is a just a checksum to tell you at the end if it matches the whole audio or not. > - what happens when the metadata blocks get corrupt? will the audio > part still be decodable even when non-audio blocks are corrupt? yes > - since there is only a md5 checksum on the audio blocks itself, what > happens when some wav metadata gets corrupt and you want to decode > that data? How can the decoder detect it's corrupt or not because > there is no md5 checksum for this data? depends on the corruption, some kinds are recoverable, some are not. read the format spec first and it should become clear. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com