repairing avi files

nicke261192 · 06-03-2006, 20:19

i got some avi files last night (my divx problem is solved! yeah thanks guys) and for some reason it said they were completely downloaded but i found them in my partials folder. and they have .avi.partial at the end. is there anyway of making them normal? and them not being partials so i can play them?

thanks
nicke261192
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jellybaby · 06-03-2006, 20:23

http://www.vladd44.com/video/incomplete.php any help ?

06-03-2006, 20:25

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

Beaten to it by jellybaby

nicke261192 · 06-03-2006, 20:46

jelly babies only does 20 minutes of the file and shabba's says its not a valid win32 file then norton antivirus says its gave me a virus! anyone else able to help thanks guys

bopdude · 07-03-2006, 10:10

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Originally Posted by nicke261192

i got some avi files last night (my divx problem is solved! yeah thanks guys) and for some reason it said they were completely downloaded but i found them in my partials folder. and they have .avi.partial at the end. is there anyway of making them normal? and them not being partials so i can play them?

thanks
nicke261192
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A quick google brings up quite a lot of answers / solutions, the easiest being, make sure you d/l the full file

the next solution to playing them is to make a copy of the partial .avi and play it in VLC player haven't tried myself but supposed to work.

HTH

grubbymitts · 07-03-2006, 11:17

what p2p program are you using - it sounds like an edonkey derivative if you have partial files. This program should move the full avi into a designated folder once it has finished downloading it and then delete any .partial files. So, I would conclude that you haven't actually finished the download and that your P2P client was fibbing (ie crashed) or the person you were leeching from was only sharing a partial file in the first place.

It is unlikely it is a virus. The problem with virus killers is they often work on an heurustic (spelling?) basis where they look for patterns inside a file that are the same as a virus. This can lead to what are known as false positives, especially with partial downloads that may have a few bytes in them that, coincidentally, are the same as a virus pattern. Once the full file is downloaded these bytes may have been changed completely or added to, making it different from the virus pattern so a normal scan would not show it as a virus then, even though it did 30 minutes before.

nicke261192 · 07-03-2006, 17:47

morph(cof)(cof)eus

grubbymitts · 07-03-2006, 19:13

morpheus???? Crikey, you'd get better files from Kazaa!

07-03-2006, 19:22

Apologies nicke261192!

The link i posted was a trojan and i should have checked it before i sent it

Strange because i have used that same download location before!

However, avipreview does work with morpheus files and is (trojan free) here http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avipreview_aj.html

I have triple checked the file this time and all is ok

grubbymitts · 08-03-2006, 14:42

right, the avi viewer had a trojan in it. I read it as the .partial file was coming up as a virus. My bad.

Avipreview is a good one. Very useful from my old kazaa days for finding out if something was real or just another copy of Horny Housewives from Prague #14. Although, I have to say, #14 answered all the questions left open at the end of Horny Housewives from Prague #13.

08-03-2006, 20:47

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Originally Posted by grubbymitts

Although, I have to say, #14 answered all the questions left open at the end of Horny Housewives from Prague #13.

Really? I thought Helga was a little lacking. I'd also dispute the fact she was a real housewife