[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mxf umid generation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:28:55PM -0800, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems some products really check umid and base themself on its
> uniqueness, so it seems better to actually try to generate a unique number.
> 
> Is the approach in the patch acceptable ? If no, 



> any other suggestion ?

yes, add a random_seed.c/h
that does:
1. try to get a uint32 from reading /dev/(u)random
2. try to get a uint32 from LSB of rdtsc (and similar for ppc/bfin see 
   libavutil/timer.h)
3. md5 or sha1 of the first frame or extradata

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