On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:56:38 +0100, Stephen
wrote:<u1dsea99o5svvh2s7u9h9e1p1n83rga8vf@astraweb>
>drek wrote:
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>> Stephen wrote:
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>>> "Unable to open item [Citizenfour.mp4] for playback [with VLC]
>>> (Unsupported format or corrupted file (moov box not found))"
>
>>> What?
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>> The file is incomplete.
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>> 132 matches "moov box not found"
>> https://forum.videolan.org/
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>> The copy from this group plays fine in VLC 2.1.5 Rincewind.
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>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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