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by gregsadetsky 1744 days ago
Since I first replied to your comment, people have figured out that there's more than just the 'time' (that appears at 0:23 in the video) that changes from one video to another. There are 'parameters' that get encoded in the video file name/URL's MD5 hash as well. Compare these two videos:

Original video file name: blue-a-b1-c1234-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i

which is this url: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...

Another video file name: blue-a-b3-c0555-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i

which is this url: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...

Notice the differences due to the b, e, g and h values:

- at 0:13 the video is different

- at 0:18 the video is different

- at 0:23 the displayed time is different (12:34 versus 5:55)

- at 0:35 the video is different

- at 0:39 the video is different

- at 0:42 the video is different

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This is also really helpful to see all of the clips :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeRmoU7VxIA

Found on https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/pjww65/whatismatrix...