Video Container Question

eaze187 · #1 07-20-2007, 12:41 PM

Ok, my problem is this: I downloaded a move that was suppose to be 250megs, the torrent died before I got all of the file (I got 249 megs.) The video reads as 27 mins long, but it will only play 9 mins of the video. The file is an AVI wtf? Can put the video in a new container to see the lost minutes, is it a miss read, an error of some sort, or blank space? Any advice would be great. Thnx.

Cheers

CP · #2 07-20-2007, 06:07 PM

Virtualdub can usually play broken files, and its free to download here
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/

regards
CP.

smallworld · #3 07-24-2007, 07:26 AM

Torrent containers do not download from start to finish like a normal file download. When you start a torrent you may recieve the end or middle of the file before you recieve the beginning. This is how torrents work - trading "bits" with other peers. You cannot assume therefore that it will be the end of the file that is missing and that most of the file will play ok, as many people would expect. The video repair utility mentioned above is one I have never used, however in order to work, it would have to be capable of cutting out the missing frames and creating a new file. Please tell us if you get it working. I would like to know how it goes. When this happens to me - I just abandon the file and forget it. I have however used DIVFIX before to replace the missing index from an AVI and cut out bad parts. You can find DIVFIX via google.