Movie from Bittorrent possibly corrupted ?

[MoonMan]

Alright at a friends house the other day, I started downloading a movie off of bittorrent. I left his house forgetting about it, and when I came back I remembered and found it exactly where I saved it.


It's a total of 3 files that are .avi which equal about 2 gigs. Everytime I try to play it in Windows Media Player and ATI Video Player (I don't normally play this POS) it just says "Cannot play file". Doesn't even play the sound.

The codecs I have on this computer are just DivX and XivD. Trying to keep it simple so I can play the most basic of things.

This computer has XP if that is of any significance.

Thanks for any help that can be given.

[Tremaine]

i've never gotten a corrupt file from bittorrent, are you sure it download completed? divix and xivd usally work for all rips but just in case i still have most of the k-litecodec pack. you should also try playing with bsplayer or with a divx player . You could also be missing divx audio codecs, or it could just be corrupt as you said...

[SUprEMeBeiNg]

yah its defiently a codec prob

bit rarely has fakes

[zaphodiv]

If possible, restart the bittorrent download and point it to the existing file. Bittorrent will check the file. If it does not say the file is complete it means bittorrent was closed before the file was done and you will have to leave it on again to finish.

[mrlipring]

sounds like an incomplete download.

remember that BT creates a "dummy file" and then fills it in as it downloads, so it might appear to have downloaded properly.

[ClearYourMind]

BT is very secure. It was designed for use of transfering large image files like Linux distro .ISOs. So it had to secure and stable. It uses a md5 like checksum to verify all the data. When it says complete, you are assured that it wouldn't have got currpted from downloaded.

That is not to say that the movie itself isn't a bad release. Could be codecs, could be just a crappy release. Happens all the time. BT isn't immune to people sharing crap.

[Krell]

I agree it may be incomplete, but all 3 incomplete?

So try to restart the torrents, see what happens.

Also try to play them in something other than WMP.