Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a site, won't work until the process has fully finished. I started to download episodes of a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all the files from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all the files are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown error in all of them. What file is needed to run these files ??
In article <eOGHq.573$%E...@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
Peter <pdo97...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a site, won't >work until the process has fully finished. I started to download episodes of >a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all the files >from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all the files >are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown error in all of them. >What file is needed to run these files ??
> In article <eOGHq.573$%E...@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
> Peter <pdo97...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a site, won't
>>work until the process has fully finished. I started to download episodes >>of
>>a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all the >>files
>>from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all the files
>>are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown error in all of >>them.
>>What file is needed to run these files ??
>> In article <eOGHq.573$%E...@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
>> Peter <pdo97...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>>Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a
>>>site, won't work until the process has fully finished. I started
>>>to download episodes of
>>>a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all
>>>the files
>>>from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all
>>>the files are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown
>>>error in all of them.
>>>What file is needed to run these files ??
>> What software are you using to download them?
You clearly misunderstand what you are downloading. You are not downloading the avi files from Kickass. All you are getting from the Kickass site is a torrent file, which is merely a small set of instructions for the uTorrent program to use for downloading the avi file from other torrent users around the world. This is why the "time slowed down". Most people have upload speeds substantially lower than their download speed. This low speed is further divided among several files that are being sent to others at the same time. You are constantly picking up and dropping connections to others (seeds and peers) which varies the downloading speed. Your program should display this as it happens.
The avi is split into hundreds of small parts which are sent to you in random order. You are not getting the parts sequentially from beginning to end. The reason the are in the "Uncompleted" directory is because they are NOT complete yet. There will be a file listed there that shows the file size of the full avi file, but that is because uTorrent reserved the full file space so it could place the small pieces into their proper location within the file as it gets them. Some torrent clients can graphically display details showing which of the pieces you have so far.
Avi files have an index section at the end which some players must read in order to play the file. VLC will play incomplete files without an index, but only if you have the beginning of the file intact and only up to the point where it encounters an empty space in the file that has not yet been downloaded.
>>> In article <eOGHq.573$%E...@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
>>> Peter <pdo97...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>>>Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a
>>>>site, won't work until the process has fully finished. I started
>>>>to download episodes of
>>>>a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all
>>>>the files
>>>>from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all
>>>>the files are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown
>>>>error in all of them.
>>>>What file is needed to run these files ??
>>> What software are you using to download them?
> You clearly misunderstand what you are downloading. You are not
> downloading the avi files from Kickass. All you are getting from the
> Kickass site is a torrent file, which is merely a small set of
> instructions for the uTorrent program to use for downloading the avi
> file from other torrent users around the world. This is why the "time
> slowed down". Most people have upload speeds substantially lower than
> their download speed. This low speed is further divided among several
> files that are being sent to others at the same time. You are
> constantly picking up and dropping connections to others (seeds and
> peers) which varies the downloading speed. Your program should
> display this as it happens.
> The avi is split into hundreds of small parts which are sent to you
> in random order. You are not getting the parts sequentially from
> beginning to end. The reason the are in the "Uncompleted" directory
> is because they are NOT complete yet. There will be a file listed
> there that shows the file size of the full avi file, but that is
> because uTorrent reserved the full file space so it could place the
> small pieces into their proper location within the file as it gets
> them. Some torrent clients can graphically display details showing
> which of the pieces you have so far.
> Avi files have an index section at the end which some players must
> read in order to play the file. VLC will play incomplete files
> without an index, but only if you have the beginning of the file
> intact and only up to the point where it encounters an empty space in
> the file that has not yet been downloaded.
> > In article <eOGHq.573$%E...@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
> > Peter <pdo97...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >>Is there a reason why some avi files I have downloaded from a site, won't
> >>work until the process has fully finished. I started to download episodes
> >>of
> >>a tv series, and stopped because the time slowed down. Having all the
> >>files
> >>from the series in a directory named Uncompleted downloads, all the files
> >>are there but if i try to run them, there is a unknown error in all of
> >>them.
> >>What file is needed to run these files ??
> > What software are you using to download them?
Peter, a soon as the files begin to download, the sizes are showing on
your folder. If you go into settings in uTorrent make a "final
download" folder for your full download to end up in. Then you will
have no confusion with what is/is not fully downloaded.
