[Flac-dev] Re: Need AMD debugging help

Mike Wren mikew at etree.org
Wed Aug 14 18:23:02 PDT 2002


Shhh... don't say that too loud.  External md5 checksums of SHN is the
sacred cow.  :)

MW

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jason Lunz wrote:

> mikew at etree.org said:
> > I would follow this one up with those people... like Jason said, FLAC
> > is very cpu intensive, and if overheating would occur, it would be
> > during a FLAC encode/decode/verify pass.
>
> And it's worth pointing out that these flac errors are a good thing. If
> someone compresses a show using shorten on the same overheated hardware
> and then md5sums the output, they're checksumming the broken output and
> won't ever notice the error. Who knows how many etree seeds were
> compressed on overheated CPUs like this.
>
> Jason
>
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