[gst-devel] libgsttrm.so plugin

[David I. Lehn]

* Zaheer Abbas Merali <zaheerabbas at merali.org> [2004-10-13T08:27:02-0400]:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:30 +0100, Tim M?ller wrote:
> > The trm plugin calculates/retrieves the TRM for a given audio stream.
> > A TRM is 
> > basically something like an 'acoustic fingerprint'. More info here:
> > 
> >    http://www.relatable.com/tech/trm.html
> > 
> 
> Someone was complaining about the mediatest using md5's..Why not use
> this plugin and compare the 'acoustic fingerprint' rather than md5.
> 

If you used just a TRM comparison then you'd be comparing what the TRM
algorithm does, not the source data.  So variations in the source data
that may indicate bugs could possibly go undetected.  The TRM code also
uses the musicbrainz servers, and whatever magic it's closed source code
does, to do the actual calculation which probably isn't something we
want to depend on.

-dave