Corrosion. Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 A while back I had a copy of Hackers 2 (operation take down) on my computer I had a bad virus on the thing and ended up wiping the thing and downgrading to xp Now I've noticed any time I download any video if I try to play the video (with vlc) before its finished downloading it plays a scene from hackers 2.... I've also noticed on an unrelated video that had not completed downloading it would play the revision3 startup and then go on to parts of hackers 2 or hak5. - Even more interesting is that I've never had a video on my computer with the revision3 startup... Although I do watch revision3 I've never downloaded a rev3 video This solves itself once the video has completed downloading, what I don't get is how videos that are nolonger on my computer (because it was formatted) are being played before downloads are complete. It doesn't make any sense to me. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Doesn't make sense to me either, but you should probably know that there's no such thing as Hackers 2, it's a standalone movie which has no connection whatsoever to the original Hackers movie, someone just mislabelled it on a filesharing service and the whole world seemed to believe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 I had a feeling I noticed that anti-trust was labeled hackers 3 and I know for a fact that's not right So is the movie just called operation take down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthrounit Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I had a similar problem awhile back just try reinstalling VLC Player and get the newest version that should be your best bet to correcting the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 Thanks, but its a fresh install... and how can it show part of a video after its been formatted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 It could be trying to play all videos in you web browser's cache or VLC cache. Clear your temp files, internet history etc and see if the problems exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Your computer is haunted. (Seriously, I have no idea) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Did you use the same user profile on the new installation as the old one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted August 17, 2009 Author Share Posted August 17, 2009 No my old installation was under Harold and the new one is Administrator It's a really weird.. I just don't get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Run filemon against VLC loading a video and see what files it refers to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I'm telling you his PC is haunted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 Run filemon against VLC loading a video and see what files it refers to. It only happens when downloading a video and playing that uncompleted video as it downloads..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Just figured I'd post it happened again. I reformatted my pc 5 times (installation issues don't ask) I dual booted xp/ubuntu, within xp i have a video downloading, I'm impatient and decide to see how much of the video I can watch with vlc with only 30% completed. And what do you know, I see part of an episode of futurama on there! for about 5 sec then it closes. The video was on the previous installation in a different directory with a different name then the file being downloaded. Again once download is complete it stops doing that --> filemon is nolonger avail for download Just figured I'd say it still happens... It's just really odd. I mean its show files that shouldn't exists in different directories with different names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 same difference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896645.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 What if you play the video with a different player does it still do the same thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Does this only do it when watching partial torrents? Sounds like the formats are just marking the disk space avilable for use, but not overwritten yet and you are seeing old deleted files. What kind of format are you using? Quick Format wont destroy data entirely until the space is actually used. Try http://www.handyrecovery.com/ and see if you can recover the episode of futurama. Wouldn't be surprised if the files you formatted over are still there in some pieces and the partial torrent is writing to areas of the episode but not entirely overwritten the file since its probably fragmented on the disk in various places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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