Large downloads slowing/stopping as they progress

Roger Bell_West roger at firedrake.org
Sat May 9 02:30:05 PDT 2015


On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +0100, Jim web wrote:
>As came, it will play with VLC, but as with earlier results, showed the
>wrong duration and would crash out if I tried to jump to a later section
>whilst playing. I guess this may be the norm for the raw flv's?

In my experience of playing video files (I haven't tried this
particular one), that's a sign of a file that's been truncated. (The
header gives the duration it was expected to have, but some of the
data are missing.) The remux that you did rebuilds the header data
from the actual file content.

R



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