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> I've never had a photo or video occasionally corrupted on any computer I've ever owned How do you know? Just the other day I pushed a TS video stream through
by acqq 11y ago
> I've never had a photo or video occasionally corrupted on any computer I've ever owned
How do you know? Just the other day I pushed a TS video stream through the script that accidentally modified some bytes (I didn't even bother to analyze the exact changes). There were occasional artifacts observable, but the stream played nevertheless. Which is how the players are being made: to be able to resynchronize even on bigger errors. Somebody who programs these things can surely tell you much more about that.
I was able to notice that because I played the stream in mplayer while watching the console output. So I saw the "debug messages" detecting "something" wrong, and stopped seeing them once I've corrected the script. It was the messages, not the "watching" that made me sure.
- ju-st 11y agoWhy worry about it if you don't even notice the corruption ?
- acqq 11y agoFor your own videos that nobody ever even wants to watch again, you surely don't have. For the servers for your business... Well... I can imagine there are enough people who won't care too. Note that the chance for corruptions increases as long as the data remain in RAM unsaved and only much later get to be saved. We are lucky that, at least in private use, we typically copy the data to the medium without keeping it too long only in the RAM (order of seconds or less). So that also reduces the chances of our pictures being saved with the wrong bits.
- darkmighty 11y agoAn important tenet of the digital world is avoiding error propagation. You pass the video along a few times and the errors accumulate.