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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: J31 on June 16, 2005, 08:41:35 PM
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Hi!
Every video I download with amule will not play with mplayer. When I try to play video with xine it shows a bunch of smeard colors. Any idea what may be the cause of this?
Thanks in advance.
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You're downloading the wrong videos ;)
I have downloaded a lot of videos with aMule, and I found this behaviour only once... and the it turned out to be a broken video file.
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They all can't be bad.. Everyone I've downloaded shows the same thing. Regardless of the format - be they AVI, Mpeg or Divx.
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I bet you get a lot of simultaneous sources for these videos and they download very fast, don't they?
I have found lots of these videos. Mostly in french machines. From 9 to 16 servers with close IP numbers serving the same files at the same time, almost imediately after I place the file at the download queue (too good to be true, hum?). My theory is that there are people putting these on the ed2k network to consume bandwidth and hurt the network performance. It is the only explanation.
I have a friend that works with xine development, and I usually supply him with videos that xine can't play, and he told me those messy color videos are screwed. And I am sure this is on purpose.
Anyone knows anything about these servers? If someone wants to try, just do a simple search for a porno keyword of your preference and select those files with big names and a lot of french words.
Just a small request, it may be obvious, but please, don't share those screwed videos. Delete them asap. People probably take a certain time before finding out they are screwed, and this is enough to hurt the network.
But hey, if you are worried about aMule, don't be, files do not get corrupted without the program noticing. So if your download completed, the MD4SUM is ok, so the file is exactly the way it was originally. aMule does not screw those videos, they were probably put there to cause damage to the network on purpose.
Cheers!
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thanks for this post. i'm a recent convert and have had great luck finding audio. the 4-6 videos (all wmv) won't go with mplayer. since i have slow dsl, hate to move to large files, but seems necessary.
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For wmv video playback mplayer uses native MSW DLLs. It might be that the wmv files you're trying to play with mplayer use newer technique or have licensed content, thet mplayer can't play. If they do play in MSW with e.g. WMP, then this is the true reason.
Or they are just junk.