how can i see an incomlet download?

[Rich]

Hi baribal,

If you want to see the movie through edonkey you need to have the beginning of the file, then right click and preview. If not, right click on the file, write down the met-file name. Then you must go to where your temporary files are stored, find the .part file that matches the met-file name.

Copy that file somewhere, rename it as movie.avi or something, then try and open it. Sometimes it works sometimes it does not. If it does not you can either try divfix, or try a hex editor (not recommended) to select the parts of the file that have information.

Hope this works for you, Rich

[paquini]

I have proved some programs and the best that i found is EDWatch. You can find it in the P2P search you need Video Lan, AVIPreview Winrar and ZipFix too, but you can see almost all the kind of formats AVI, MPG, RAR, ZIP, ISO and more, you can also preview static videoframes on AVI, also prevents you about several days inactive downloads. Iit's a little complicated to configure but once you do it, if It's correct It's a great tool. :

[Guest]

I use VideoLan at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ to view the temp (part) files in the download directory. As Rich says you need the beginning and end of the file to view your download, you can set your config so that it will attempt to download the beginning and end segments first, I'm not sure if this slows the download or not though

In preferences > under FILES you can click the option on ( try to download first and last chunks first)

Allso at the bottom you fill in your videoplayer (thats Videolan, you have to tell where the exe file of videolan is on your comp)
VERRY IMPORTANT : to preview with videolan you have to UNCHECK the box : create backup to preview

Videolan works great that way, but there allways files you have to download full before viewing (let's say 80-85% possible to preview, the rest not)

And don't forget the first bit of the movie has to be downloaded first otherwise no preview

If you preview a movie, somethimes if a part is missing, it goes automatic to the other parts that are allready downloaded.
If it doesn't work automaticly, you can manually search with the time, to look for other parts that are downloaded.....

Enjoy
Jb

[Guest]

Once I have the parts needed for preview, I like to copy the part file from the temp folder to another folder and open it with VirtualDub. This allows me to seek over the missing parts (gaps in video) at high speed (press Shift + Right Arrow. Other players take ages to work their way through the gaps.

If you don't have the parts needed for preview (first and last 2 parts for avi files), VirtualDub will try to reconstruct the avi index. This takes quite a while on full CPU, so don't do it unless you are desperate.

[Guest]

Once I have the parts needed for preview, I like to copy the part file from the temp folder to another folder and open it with VirtualDub. This allows me to seek over the missing parts (gaps in video) at high speed (press Shift + Right Arrow. Other players take ages to work their way through the gaps.

I do previews this way too using VirtualDubMod (same thing). Also using Media Player Classic would have to be the best player for viewing incomplete or corrupt files, it's definitely designed for this sort of thing.