Comments on: Playing incomplete .avi woes.

Question: Playing incomplete .avi woes.

Solomon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:10:10 -0800

I'm looking for a plugin for VLC (or, an alternate media player) that is capable of handling incomplete video files downloaded from a Bittorrent network.

Certain chunks are available, but others aren't. I want to be able to view the available data in a continuous stream, that plays everything available, irrespective of where in the timeline it is.

A plugin that does this for eMule is available [http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/help.cgi?l=1&rm=show_topic&topic_id=138]. It takes the available video data, compiles it into a file, and then VLC plays it. Or something like that. However, I can't get this plugin to work with Bittorrent.

I'm using Windows XP.

By: scodger

scodger — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:21:26 -0800

DivFix might be able to help you, do a rebuild with cutting out bad parts. If i was you id make sure to only work on a copy, so you don't lose what you already have.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:31:05 -0800

Wow. Anything like this for OS X?

By: niles

niles — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:44:50 -0800

What type of video file? I know, from recent experience, that QuickTime can play partially downloaded files (in this case, .dv). I would assume that it could do the same with other playable files.

By: niles

niles — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:50:54 -0800

oh. avi files. right.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:58:06 -0800

AVIPreview.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:21:46 -0800

My VLC already plays .part files from the eDonkey network, though I haven't tried .bt! or other extensions. My guess is that the extension is arbitrary, but it's possible that VLC only recognizes certain extensions as "partial file" type.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:45:10 -0800

VLC will play a portion of the file, especially if the first few chunks are downloaded, but when it comes to an incomplete/missing chunk, it stops playing. Using the eMule plugin, I can view the downloaded pieces sequentially, without VLC crashing. Unfortunately,it only does this for eMule.

I'll look into the two apps suggested, thanks.