(20/04/2011 04:47 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  I often use it for searching for direct links.  Easy to get a hash off a torrent site, then paste the hash into a DDL search.
File names are just as predictable, so this "identifier" you're giving is really just unnecessarily duplicating info.

The search argument is PB's anyway, not mine.  I do not really see how it is more difficult at all to copy a whole file name and paste it into a search engine, than it is to copy the hash part of a file name, and paste that into a search engine.

So any added mechanism for searching would be just adding unnecessary info to me.

(20/04/2011 04:47 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Computers can generate identifiers from filenames quite easily.  They can even append a hash or uniquifier to ensure uniqueness.

But that will be a waste of effort.  Because only the computer is ever going to read the segment ID anyway, no point in making it sensible.

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(20/04/2011 04:47 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Because it seems that containers like MKV don't embed their own hash...
Only anime seems to be done that way anyway.  Other TV shows never seem to have hashes appended.  Most transfer protocols (torrent, TCP etc) have error detection anyway, so verifying integrity actually isn't terribly important.

It's not all that important, even if the transfer protocol doesn't have error detection.  I bet 90% of the people don't even know why it's there at all.

But yeah, wee're really going off topic.  The main reason is file integrity checking, I think wee both agree with that, that should be all there is to it.

(This post was last modified: 20/04/2011 05:18 AM by Assassinator.)