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MD5 of the same files are different

Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:12 pm
by TheBombEmperor61
I ripped a video 3 times from a disc and found that the MD5 sum was different for all three.

Is this expected and what is the explanation?

Re: MD5 of the same files are different

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:48 am
by Wasabi
Yes, it's expected. Among other things, there's a unique text header in the metadata of all MKVs. Use MediaInfo to poke around.

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Unique ID                                : 261860272940468430999439405479738788489 (0xC500743F4077B1B7804D3A3D082CCA89)