277105 - Corrupting downloaded videos

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[tyk]

Every time i download a video file (wmv,mpg,avi) and try to open it in wmp or
any other player the video file is corrupted. The image is all bluried.

Comment 1

[tyk]

the same videos downloaded with IE don´t have the same problem

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Can you give us a URL?

Comment 3

[tyk]

url added

Comment 4

[Patrick]

Reporter: i guess we should first make a distinction
1) corrupt file means that it's not playable anymore
2) blurred image has nothing to do with downloader, but with file quality.

The file d/l w/o problems to my PC. Image is indeed blurred, but i guess that's
simple the file's quality. 

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Comment 5

[tyk]

Some files are completly corrupted so i can´t play them.
Others are only blurred.
The files that i had problems with were downloaded with IE and Firefox.
The videos that were downloaded with IE are normal (they have the usual quality
of internet videos).
But when i download the same files with Firefox, they have less quality than the
same files downloaded with IE can´t even been diplayed. 
The files even have diferent size (the one downloaded with Firefox is usualy 
bigger (something about 4K)).

Comment 6

[tyk]

I opened the video file that i downloaded with firefox in a text editor and it
has this code lines at it's beginning
5a0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Age: 1
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:22:12 GMT
Content-Length: 1178790
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Expires: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:22:14 GMT
Server: thttpd/2.21b 23apr2001 Built-in PHP
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:10:45 GMT

the same file downloaded with IE don't have this lines in it.

Comment 7

[tyk]

Attachment: Comparing the same video

In this image you will see the same video downloaded with Firefox and with IE.
The video at the left side were downloaded with Firefox...image is completly
distorted.
The video at the right side were downloaded with IE. The video is normal.
This is the URL from were i downloaded the video
http://fun.from.hell.pl/2004-04-28/desperatka.mpeg

Comment 8

[tyk]

Attachment: Comparing the same video

In this image you will see the same video downloaded with Firefox and with IE.
The video at the left side were downloaded with Firefox...the image is
completly distorted.
The video at the right side were downloaded with IE. The video is normal.
This is the URL from were i downloaded the video
http://fun.from.hell.pl/2004-04-28/desperatka.mpeg

Comment 9

[tyk]

Now i'm having problems with pdf files.
This this URL http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp_docs/Clouds.pdf
I Uploaded the file that i downloaded with firefox.
The Acrobat Reader says that the file is damaged when i try to open it.
Now, if you open this file in a text editor you will see that tha same code line
that i posted here that were included in the imges are in the pdf files.

Comment 10

[tyk]

Attachment: pdf file with problems.

http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp_docs/Clouds.pdf
this is the original URL so you can see the diferences between the to files.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 12

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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