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MoonMan · **Movie from Bittorrent possibly corrupted ? -** May 29th, 2003, 01:56 PM

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 · **movie -** May 29th, 2003, 02:07 PM

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 · May 29th, 2003, 02:11 PM

yah its defiently a codec prob

bit rarely has fakes

zaphodiv · May 29th, 2003, 02:34 PM

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 · May 29th, 2003, 03:59 PM

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 · June 1st, 2003, 03:41 AM

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 · June 1st, 2003, 04:04 AM

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.

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SUprEMeBeiNg Offline Rofl, you own a pentium? Posts: 466 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Jomamma Age: 90 Reputation Power: 111	May 29th, 2003, 02:11 PM yah its defiently a codec prob bit rarely has fakes http://www.theinquirer.net/images/ad...er/amd2003.jpg

zaphodiv Offline Alpha Geek Posts: 722 Join Date: Dec 2002 Reputation Power: 126	May 29th, 2003, 02:34 PM 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 Offline Zeropaid Regular Posts: 273 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Reputation Power: 94	May 29th, 2003, 03:59 PM 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.

Krell Offline GET OFF MY LAWN . . . . . Posts: 9,910 Join Date: Sep 2002 Age: 99 Reputation Power: 761	June 1st, 2003, 04:04 AM 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.