Alright. My fault.bum wrote: - So is using this forums search function and google
Um, this won't save you much time at all (and it certainly won't reduce the amount of data transferred) if you're getting errors when downloading videos, especially when they play fine for other people. MD5 sums aren't error-correction codes.Eek-1 wrote: The reason I asked for this feature is because I had videos downloaded from here which later I found they got corrupted during the transfer. Euphoria was one of them.
Oh yeah, I totally thought about that. Maybe I should add some more to my reason:trythil wrote:Um, this won't save you much time at all (and it certainly won't reduce the amount of data transferred) if you're getting errors when downloading videos, especially when they play fine for other people. MD5 sums aren't error-correction codes.Eek-1 wrote: The reason I asked for this feature is because I had videos downloaded from here which later I found they got corrupted during the transfer. Euphoria was one of them.
It's not a matter of being stupid. File transfers can screw up, no matter who you are. I used to have some serious problems with my connection, where practically ANY file that I tried uploading or downloading would end up corrupted most of the time. File corruption can happen at anytime, particularly if you have to stop and resume your upload. There is no way to actually verify that your upload is actually correct without either downloading it and checking it, or checking its checksum. Just because the client says it uploaded, and the number of bytes means the same... that doesn't really mean anything.bum wrote:You wouldnt be stupid enough to screw up an upload in the first place.Zarxrax wrote:I would...trythil wrote:MD5 sums are kept, I think, but I wonder how many people would actually take the time to generate MD5 or CRC hashes of their videos and compare, rather than going through the old way and just downloading the thing again.
I didnt mean that against you. What I meant is that most threads on the help boards could be answered within 15 seconds of using the forum search. Even the forum stickies dont seem to do much. If we add something like MD5 it will result in more repeate threads.Eek-1 wrote:Alright. My fault.bum wrote: - So is using this forums search function and google
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=53062
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=47767
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=42909
Ummm. Fix your computer, your network, whatever. If they are corrupting data they are _broken_ and I certainly wouldn't trust a computer, network, etc. that routinely destroyed my data.Eek-1 wrote:The reason I asked for this feature is because I had videos downloaded from here which later I found they got corrupted during the transfer. Euphoria was one of them.
It'd unfortuantely take a reasonable bit of work. The reason is that (a) a checksum calculation can be time consuming (e.g., up to 15s or so, depending on system load); (b) the program on Kero that handles things like that can only do one thing at a time. So while a 15s md5sum calculation is going, none of the things that Pancake does would happen. These include:SpringBoy wrote:So hard would it be to add the checksum calculation *before* confirming the upload?