And the merkle root is of a tree of equally-size blobs?
I ask because that might make it easy to skip to the relevant part of the video. Do we know the depth of the tree?
Although, I guess you have ...
On https://video.iris.to/ (source code in the hashtree repo iris-files package) I have a service worker that handles http range requests to /htree/nhash... and the browser video player can request only the relevant part of the file from the hashtree.
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