Corrupt Files

**rwestover** · January 21st, 2012, 12:15 PM

I am new to this site forum and new to torrent files.
I have downloaded a coupe of recent movies thru a leased seedbox. I then transferred them to my computer and to an external hard drive. I use a MacBook Pro with Filezilla and uTorrent on the seedbox.
I then copy the directory of files for each to a USB jump drive. Some files play from the USB to my TV through a Blu ray DVD player. Many show up as "Corrupt File".
I am getting the Torrents from a Private Site, Not real hard to get into however.
Any suggestions?

**HelenaP** · January 21st, 2012, 01:01 PM

Someone with more experience should be along soon to help. I have question though - Are you positive that the files were 100% downloaded before moving them all over the place?

**rwestover** · January 21st, 2012, 02:54 PM

Yes, I let them seed to get a good ratio to downloads.

**DigitalJunkie** · January 21st, 2012, 02:54 PM

I'm not a Mac user, does Mac file system has a 2GB file limit like older Windows file system?

**rwestover** · January 21st, 2012, 03:17 PM

MAC OS Extended has no file size limits, however these main files were less than 1.5 GB. I included all the files produced by the torrent in a sub directory for each movie. The USB thumb drive is FAT32 of course since that is all the Blu Ray player will read from the USB port.

**DigitalJunkie** · January 21st, 2012, 03:57 PM

1) What's file extension you use for those files?

2) Does your Blu-ray player read MP4 files like those on Playstation?

**rwestover** · January 21st, 2012, 04:11 PM

We are talking mostly .avi files

**DigitalJunkie** · January 21st, 2012, 04:29 PM

Most Blu-ray players I know does not support .avi files, do you have the manual for your Blu-ray player? Otherwise, you may have to convert those video files to new hi-def .mp4 file format with a video converter program!

**rwestover** · January 22nd, 2012, 06:07 AM

Thank you. I'll look into that. I have played several avi files. But I could try an mp4 conversion of those that do not play.
I am wondering if I am trying for too new releases, like still showing. I may simply have bad files or parts of files.

**Tic3** · January 22nd, 2012, 06:55 AM

Also, the .avi extension is just a "container" that several different encoders use. The file could be one of the many versions of DIVX, it could be XVID, etc., etc.

In fact, this is why many people have problems playing some files on their computers. Although not as much a problem these days as it used to be, having the wrong codecs installed on your computer can cause all sorts of interesting problems with .avi files.

My guess would be that it's not really a corrupt file as much as it is that your blu ray player doesn't support that particular codec.

Does the file play on any other machine? Your computer, another computer, a different dvd player, etc. Does it play in the VLC media player?

There are programs out there that can identify the codec used to convert your file. One thing you can do is compare the files that work with the files that don't work. Then you can get a converter for the files that don't work and re-encode them to a compatible codec.