[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 03/23] avformat/matroskaenc: Use random TrackUID

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Carl Eugen Hoyos:
> Am Mi., 27. Nov. 2019 um 17:58 Uhr schrieb Andreas Rheinhardt
> <andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I consider this only a slight disadvantage: E.g. the streamhash or the
>> framehash muxers would provide easy ways to examine whether the actual
>> content of the files (besides the UIDs) are different.
> 
> But that wouldn't show changes in the output of the muxer.
> 
True. But given that this muxer has already written some random data
when not in bitexact mode (namely the SegmentUID as well as the
FileUID of attachments) for more than nine years I wonder how much
this has hindered finding bugs.

- Andreas