In reply to "RIB" who wrote the following:
> 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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Ignore the above - my bad - sorry.
RIB.
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