RazMan
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 10:03 AM |
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Incomplete Torrents
I've been downloading a movie from a BitTorrent site and it has stopped at 97.9% with no seeds (been like this for days now)
Is there any way to fill in the remaining 2.1% with blank data so that I can burn it to a DVD and put up with the gaps?
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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muzchap
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 10:26 AM |
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Unfortunately no :-(
The problem is every piece is hash # encoded - and CRC'd.
Have you tried searching other torrent sites for the same version? It might have been re-seeded elsewhere:
www.torrentspy.com
www.thepiratebay.com
etc...
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chasmon
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 01:38 PM |
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Torrent incomplete.
You may be able to play the movie depending on what file type it is.
If it was compressed by winzip or winrar then no. If it was a AVI then you can however open it in VLC and play it on your PC.
VLC by videolan is a free player and very good at playing partial downloads.
To fix it you may be able to use something like VirtualDub or similar.
Hope this helps.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 04:34 PM |
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Had similar problems with downloading large ISO files a few years back --- turned out to be MTU related, reduced the MTU and it sort of went away. I
am pretty sure part of the problem was an my ISP (BT-Yajoke).
Since then have switched to a decent ISP and never had to twiddle the MTU setting ever again.
[Edited on 14/4/06 by britishtrident]
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RazMan
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 05:22 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chasmon
If it was a AVI then you can however open it in VLC and play it on your PC.
VLC by videolan is a free player and very good at playing partial downloads.
To fix it you may be able to use something like VirtualDub or similar.
It is an avi file but it won't play in Media Player or Nero. It isn't seeded anywere else as far as I can tell and there are over 9000 
other people (leechers?) in the same boat. I'll give VLC a try - thanks chasmon
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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RazMan
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| posted on 14/4/06 at 05:40 PM |
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Just tried VLC and no luck 
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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greggors84
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| posted on 20/5/06 at 10:07 PM |
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RazMan, did you ever sort this out?
Its just started to happen to me, really annoying!
What are the MTU settings?
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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RazMan
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| posted on 20/5/06 at 10:32 PM |
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In my particular case it turned out to be a spoof file - why anyone chooses to mislead people in this way is beyond me 
I'm not sure what the MTU settings are but they are probably default.
I have found that I get the best download speeds at night (probably when the US wakes up) so I just get everything queued in Azureus and go to bed -
everything has normally finished downloading by the next morning, except for 4Gb film files which can take a few days.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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