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by dither8 794 days ago
My perspective. Checksumming is more useful on large binary data, whereas tools to check metadata/container corruption already exist[1].

This allows you to change metadata or the container entirely, while still being able to check if e.g. the H.264 video stream is okay.

[1]: https://www.matroska.org/downloads/mkvalidator.html