GonZor Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I'm having a really wierd problem, every time I try to open episode 206 windows crashes...I have downloaded the file several times but to the same effect did this happen to anyone else?? I might also mention I am from Australia so I am downloading from the Internode Servers becasue it doesn't count towards my bandwidth. and yes I am aware that episode 206 is quite old now, but I would still like to get it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 In what way does 'windows crash'? BSOD? Media player crash with fatal exception? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Excuse the crap explanation, I'm barely awake... Media player crash with fatal exception, and yes i have tried it in multiple media players (winamp, wmp, another one forgot the name though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 What Browser Are you using. Becuase i know IE6 stores downloads in a Temp Deirectory and it might just be copying the corrupted file, not downloading a new file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Firefox, and now that i think of it explorer would crash if i tried to do anything with the file (rename, view properties, stuff like that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 If explorer is misbehaving, you should do a reinstall. It may be a problem with the way windows controls your video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 I just thought it was odd it only happened on this one video, I have 40gig worth of videos/movies and it's only the one file that it doesn't like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Easiest solution is to reinstall, not necessarily the best however. If it was my windows installation, I would try and fix it. For starters I would look to see what shell extensions are installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I'm gonna guess bug in a codec. Did you try VLC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 reinstalling for a hak5 episode is kinda extreme. 2x06 was really short too, you should be able to find it on youtube but more to the point, what version of the episode did you get? quicktime, xvid, wmv? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Nah didn't try VLC, I downloaded the xvid version... Whats the chance of a reinstall fixing it, could it be anything else? If not it looks like i have something to do tommorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Whats the chance of a reinstall fixing it, could it be anything else? I'm gonna guess bug in a codec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 I'm gonna guess bug in a codec. Just tried reinstalling the codec, same thing happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisiam Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 like Darren said check out youtube, it works great. At work i can't download anything so i use youtube and i am able to enjoy every episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just tried reinstalling the codec, same thing happens Video files sometimes get locked on Windows. Reinstalling isn't needed. One thing I used to run into is trying to move or delete a video file and windows would barf every time I tried to delete it. Kill EXPLORER.EXE and then ctrl+al+del to bring up task manager. Then RUN EXPLORER and it should reload explorer.exe (might even give an error when starting back up). Now find the video file and right click and do CUT and then past it where you want or put in in the recycle bin. Re-download the file and you should be all fixed. Few things else you could try. Downlaod the WMV version (may be large, but should work fine). Try redownloading the xvid file to a different name. Maybe its corrupted or not fully downloaded. Also, try the DiVX plugin instead of xvid. (Or vice versa) but only install one at a time as they get screwy as times in windows. If you can't get the xvid version to play, install Virtual Dub and see if it can play it. If it can, then maybe resave it (and probably recompress it, using xvid) and it will re-write a corrupted video as a good file. You can even ask virtual dub to scan it for errors. If xvid is installed and virtual dub can't open it then the file is most likely bad and may need to be hex edited to fix it (beyond my capabilities) but definately you do NOT need to reinstall windows just to play a video file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just tried reinstalling the codec, same thing happens Try VLC and see if it still crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just downloaded it and it played fine in Windows media player with the xvid codec (im using XviD-1.1.0-30122005 _Final Release_ but even the latest should work). http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.43.0.html Are you by any chance running an older version and on an Intel EMT64? Changes since 1.1.0: xvidcore library Fixed bug when frame-drop (N-VOP) feature is used in combination with packed B-frames Fix for premature EOF in xvid_decraw example Fixed potential crash on Intel EMT64 architecture Several fixes for IA64 platform (patch by Thomas Koeckerbauer) Fix for visual_object_verid vs. video_object_layer_verid problem Ensure intervening bytes are preserved in BitstreamInit() Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 It's not necessarily the video codec as well, remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 It's not necessarily the video codec as well, remember. I agree. I think his download was fubared. Maybe redownload it from the hak5 site and not from a mirror. Maybe their copy is the problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just to be sure, check its md5 hash. I used http://diamondcs-md5.diamond-computer-systems.qarchive.org/ to generate the following: 342F81CDD46624C1206CA5AA45512499 If you get something different then your file is not the same as the one listed for download on the hak5 site. If they don't match then I woudl say get it from the hak5 site and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonZor Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just to be sure, check its md5 hash. I used http://diamondcs-md5.diamond-computer-systems.qarchive.org/ to generate the following: 342F81CDD46624C1206CA5AA45512499 If you get something different then your file is not the same as the one listed for download on the hak5 site. If they don't match then I woudl say get it from the hak5 site and see what happens. The MD5 for this file is 5165401b4044ed49da8d6249a72f1dda, so it looks a download from Hak5 site should fix it, oh well at least its only a small file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 so its borked bits. ;) lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 so its borked bits. ;) lol borked to bits...oh no, Dr! TobyToby's not feeling so good... Borked Bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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