[MPlayer-users] Re: Free audio codec for .AVI files ?

[Jan Knutar]

> your file is damaged and redownload the damaged parts. But this is
> stupid. If your file is coming from a p2p network, it already has
> per-chunk hashes by which you can detect damage and redownload, so
> there's no sense in wasting space in the file itself to duplicate
> this. And if your file comes from somewhere else, the _user_ can
> manually run md5sum on it (or on small chunks of it) and save the
> md5sums in a separate file, where they don't waste space in the
> actual movie file.

Entirely offtopic; 
Then the user will become more and more frustrated as he downloads the 
same file 42 times, each time corrupted, only to eventually discover 
that his braindead Broadband router is simply rewriting any 4 byte 
sequence matching his IP, with the 4 byte representation of his LAN ip 
:) (Yes, there are such braindead hardware out there, a friend of mine 
spent quite alot of time trying to figure out where the corruption was 
coming frmo)