In speedrunning video games, one records a game being played and beaten in one continuous attempt. However, what can be done to cheat is to do multiple attempts, and splice together clips of the best segments to make one fast speedrun that wasn't done in a single continuous hop. This splicing isn't hard, as e.g. loading screens always look the same, so you can swap the video at those points without being noticed.
My question is: is there some way people can verify that their video was recorded in a single hop?
The reason I believe there's hope in solving the problem is: one mario 64 speedrun was caught splicing because the ambient background noise in the audio had a discontinuity at the loading screens (indicating the video was swapped there). So I imagine that some method of artificially injecting noise might be the key. The answer might also involve using live generated random values, to ensure the overall timing throughout the speedrun is consistent, as opposed to different parts being recorded at separate times.
I understand that there's lots of ways to cheat a speedrun, but I'd like some way to address this particular problem of splicing a video that should be done in 1 continuous shot.
Note that because it's a speedrun, you can't ask the player to perform a random action to verify something is done live, as performing that action would waste time, which one doesn't want to do during a speedrun.
