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Subject: Re: [Movies]-[ Citizenfour.2014.720p.WEBRiP-OFFiCiAL (Edward Snowden Documentary) ] "Citizenfour.txt"
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In reply to "drek" who wrote the following:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:56:38 +0100, Stephen
> wrote:<u1dsea99o5svvh2s7u9h9e1p1n83rga8vf@astraweb>
>
> > drek wrote:
> >
> > > Stephen wrote:
> >
> > > > "Unable to open item [Citizenfour.mp4] for playback [with VLC]
> > > > (Unsupported format or corrupted file (moov box not found))"
> >
> > > > What?
> >
> > > The file is incomplete.
> >
> > > 132 matches "moov box not found"
> > > https://forum.videolan.org/
> >
> > > The copy from this group plays fine in VLC 2.1.5 Rincewind.
> >
> > Yes, thank you. I found this out too late after downloading again
> > elsewhere as Spike suggested. I had originally joined the parts
> > with MasterSplitter, which has never failed me before, but here
> > gave a joined file without an extension. The nfo file said it's an
> > mp4, so I appended that and tried to play it with VLC 2.1.5,
> > which gave nothing but the opaque error message.
> >
> It turns out the error is actually quite specific but it can only tell
> what's wrong, not why it happened. In this case the recombined
> file is identified internally as:
>
> File Type: 7-Zip Archive (.7z)
> Mime Type: application/x-7z-compressed
>
> What the nfo failed to explain is this is a split archive with the
> original file extension removed. Thanks for the additional info
> though, it cleared up the mystery. VLC couldn't play a zip file.
>
> > However, I'd kept the pieces, and later joined them with 7-Zip,
> > which gave me a file that VLC could read. I hadn't realised
> > before that 7-Zip works on files numbered 001, 002 and so on.
>
> Great the important thing is you got the video. I thank Spike for the
> NZBs as well, they make life sooo much easier and I'll get the 1080
> also.
>
> FYI I had already saved this one using an NZB from binsearch but got
> curious to know how the program I use managed to get the right file
> extension on it when none existed.
>
> I downloaded the parts directly from the group and rejoined them with
> the old HJ Split and gave it an .mp4 extension and got the same error.
> So I ran it through Gspot to see if it could detail the error and it
> identified it as a .zip file. It is no longer in development and will
> not parse mp4 but in its day was a great program to identify errors in
> video.
>
> http://gspot.headbands.com/
>
> Regards,
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I'm guessing you guys are using Macs or you don't have quickpar on your
computers? The file was originally split using quickpar. Simply clicking on any
par file will cause quickpar to test the archive and then give you a 1 click
option to rebuild the file. It will then rebuild it automatically.
RIB.
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