Idea: MD5 hash to identify the movies (1 Viewer)

[l3aum]

Hey community,

frist thanks for this great mediaPortal. It works fine.

My idea is, that we build in a database with md5 hashes of movies, songs, what ever.
Thrught the md5 hashes we can identify the files without meta data or filenames.

If we connect the md5 hash to the imdb, we can provide informations.

What do you think. Is it posible?

 

[tourettes]

Hey community,

frist thanks for this great mediaPortal. It works fine.

My idea is, that we build in a database with md5 hashes of movies, songs, what ever.
Thrught the md5 hashes we can identify the files without meta data or filenames.

If we connect the md5 hash to the imdb, we can provide informations.

What do you think. Is it posible?

MD5 hash is not is not that useful when it comes to identifying media files. You could have hundreds of different encoding parameters used for the same video clip, so every one would result a different hash value.

Same for music. When you transfer the audio cd to PC the results will be pretty different for every person:

1) CD/DVD drives might read one bit less / more than others producing different hash value
2) Slight change in encoding parameters (or even different version of encoder used) will produce different hash value

 

[l3aum]

thats right. But many users download illegal files and the file are equals.

I have round 2500 episodes on my hdd an round 1000 movies.

I´ve tested it with and hashtable and the md5 of the first 3 lines of every file.

No file has the same md5.

 

[tourettes]

thats right. But many users download illegal files and the file are equals.

Well, people who download those illegal files should sort their own issues out