Re: Disc ID Calculation

Peter Bierman (pmb nospam at mycds.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:52:06 -0800

> 2) Instead of having one frame offset for each track, there are
>always 99 frame offsets. Any frame offsets beyond the ones for actual
>tracks are fed into the SHA1 algorithm as "00000000" ASCII.

What are you/we going to do when we have DVD-Audio discs with more than 99
tracks?

Also, can someone explain why the hashing is used at all? Why not just use
the binary representation of the TOC directly?

-pmb

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