Can you watch half downloaded .avi's ?

Empire Earth2 · Post by **Empire Earth2** » 2005-01-18 02:34

I was wondering, if you half downloaded a video shouldn't you be able to watch the half you downloaded? Or do you have to download it all?

Thanks

Xan1977 · Post by **Xan1977** » 2005-01-18 03:03

DC++ doesn't have a preview function built in, but you can open incompleted video files in any decent player. Depending on the video type, it will either play as it is, you might have make a copy and change the extention, or worst case use avifix to clean up the headers after renaming it.

Empire Earth2 · Post by **Empire Earth2** » 2005-01-18 04:13

So basicly take a half downloded movie and name it randomthing.avi and it should play in a player (Windows midea player)?

TheParanoidOne · Post by **TheParanoidOne** » 2005-01-18 06:09

Probably not Windows Media Player as it cannot play some incomplete media types.

Scewbedew · Post by **Scewbedew** » 2005-01-18 07:03

AviPreview can play incomplete AVI files

http://www.avipreview.com/avipreview.htm

Gasman1015 · Post by **Gasman1015** » 2005-01-18 07:22

Don't bother renaming or copying just use VideoLan to preview your incomplete files.

Empire Earth2 · Post by **Empire Earth2** » 2005-01-18 11:46

I tryed useing AviPreview and it lets me see the video of the half downloaded .avi file, but not the sound. Any way to fix that?

I'm going to try VideoLan next if it doesn't work or get fixed.

bastya_elvtars · Post by **bastya_elvtars** » 2005-01-18 12:15

Vildeolan (VLC) lets you see it under any circumstances. Any incompletes can be seen using it.

Empire Earth2 · Post by **Empire Earth2** » 2005-01-18 20:58

Thank you verry much, I got both of them to work.

Can you watch half downloaded .avi's ?

Can you watch half downloaded .avi's ?

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