Hi everyone!
Hashing for fixity and transfer-checking seems to be quite a bottleneck
for archiving big video/film files for archiving.
Therefore I was considering if using "simpler" algorithms (like CRC
instead of SHA256) could speed up the process.
I was surprised that e.g. MD5 vs CRC in Python as well as PHP seemed to
be equally "fast".
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So I was wondering:
Does FFmpeg have/do any speed optimization for hashing functionality
(framemd5, hash muxer, etc) in its code?
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I've noticed, for example that "-f hash" for MD5 uses only half, SHA256
just a quarter of my CPU. Input source was H.264/AAC/MP4, which I guess
decodes multi-threaded?
I'd be very grateful if anyone's interested to provide me some insights
or ideas in how FFmpeg's hashing could be made faster.
Thank you very much in advance,
Peter B.
PS:
I also found a possibly related claim in a Stackoverflow answer that the
hashing functions are not implemented as fast as they could be:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16122067/md5-vs-crc32-which-ones-better-for-common-use/35484131#comment67221384_35484131
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