Some movies

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Neb

Hi,
Can anyone help me?
I download some movies and just as they are a third of the way done,
when I preview them I don't get anything, blank screen, but it tells me
that the movie is already 62min downloaded...Later, when they are done I
can't see anything at all...I tried every possible codec and
nothig...Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
Neb
 
Hi,
Can anyone help me?
I download some movies and just as they are a third of the way done,
when I preview them I don't get anything, blank screen, but it tells me
that the movie is already 62min downloaded...Later, when they are done I
can't see anything at all...I tried every possible codec and
nothig...Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
Neb
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Need more info to try and help.
Here's a WAG
ie, what video format are you trying to play ?
WMP will generally<not> play an incomplete AVI file.
Use something like GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
to see what codec is required.
You can get WMP to play a partial AVI. Just get a copy of
VirtualDubMod at
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/2/11-2-2-29.shtml
Load the AVI and select the video tab and select *direct stream copy*
and save.
Again, more info is needed to really try and help...
HTH
bLB
 
Neb said:
Hi,
Can anyone help me?
I download some movies and just as they are a third of the way
done, when I preview them I don't get anything, blank screen,
but it tells me that the movie is already 62min
downloaded...Later, when they are done I can't see anything at
all...I tried every possible codec and nothig...Does anyone have
an idea? Thanks in advance..
Regards,
Neb
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you want freeware or your reader help? netscape.public.mozilla groep
 
buzz said:
Need more info to try and help.
Here's a WAG
ie, what video format are you trying to play ?
WMP will generally<not> play an incomplete AVI file.
Use something like GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
to see what codec is required.
You can get WMP to play a partial AVI. Just get a copy of
VirtualDubMod at
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/2/11-2-2-29.shtml
Load the AVI and select the video tab and select *direct stream copy*
and save.
Again, more info is needed to really try and help...
HTH
bLB
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Thanks for trying. I couldn't, however, download the VirtualDubMod. I
was getting unknown type file...
 
Carlos Castro said:
An articles in yesterday's CBS 60-minutes program touched on what the movie
folks were doing to discourage movie film file sharing via internet.
One trick they use - called "spoofing" - is to put up blank movie files on
the internet. This may be what you have downloaded.

See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/60minutes/main581153.shtml
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Hey - they could stick a nasty script in so that while one thinks the
movie is downloading, all that disc activity is really drive C: being
mangled. :-)
 
This past Sunday (15 Aug), the CBS program '60 minutes' had a segment
related to downloading movies and the "strife" the movie studios are going
through in trying to stop it.

Part of that segment was devoted to showing these computer "labs" that are
hired by the movie studios to do nothing but create "bogus" movie file
downloads.

One of the computer lab employees was asked what they put in there dummy
movie file downloads. His reply indicated that it could be several
different things (except the movie, of course), but is usually just a
"blank" file. Their purpose is to so frustrate the movie downloaders that
the people downloading movies will give up downloading movies and go rent or
buy them instead.

The computer lab employee did say that they do not put malicious code (or
anything else that could harm a computer) into these bogus files.

I sure don't know if that's what you've run into, but it could certainly be
possible.

Just FYI,

Loren
 
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