[Mplayer-users] Re: Re: split files

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday, 1. October 2001 09:01, Anssi Saari wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:14:58PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Sunday, 30. September 2001 12:11, Anssi Saari wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Windows weenies use hjsplit sometimes when they post movies on
> > > usenet. Makes more sense than RAR at least.
> >
> > Nope as RAR supports recovery records which allow to repair data with crc
> > errors.
>
> They don't help if you have a big chunk missing, which is usually the
> problem in Usenet postings. I think RAR's internal CRC checking is pretty
> lame too since it can only tell if a file inside a RAR doesn't match
> its CRC, but it can't tell which part of the RAR is broken... So then
> you need SFV for that.
Of course it doesn't help you if big chunks are missing, but it can even 
repair multiple crcs inside an rar archive.
Btw. I don't know a SFV tool that can tell which position of a file is 
broken, as crc is generated only for the whole file.
-- 
Best Regards,
	Atmos
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