[streaming] Re: eMule

[Vctor Corbacho]

>Likely because one (or maybe even serveral ?) of our demuxers don't like
>broken/incomplete files.
>Even though it happens on broken files, this should still be considered a
>bug in VLC and if you can get me a sample that reproduceably create this
>problem, than I would gladly have a look.
>

I´ve also noticed this problem, I think it occurs mostly with avi files 
(DivX and Xvid). But I think that is "logical" because as you say the files 
are incomplete; for example if you try to open the same file with other 
player (like Micro$oft Media Player or BSPlayer) it may crash or say that it 
can´t open that video file.
Also you must notice that when the player is "reading" an incomplete part of 
a file and the eMule is working with this file there can be problems in 
Windows (remember that Windows Media won´t open a video file if eMule is 
accesing to it). When you tell the eMule to preview a file its makes a 
temporal file with a small part of the video than is completely downloaded, 
if you try to view directly the xxx.part file in the temp folder of the 
eMule, VLC may find a incomplete part of the file.

One last thing I hope it can help you. I´ve tested this "problem" in a 
"normal" PC ( for example: K7 750MHz or a similar pentium 3) with windowsXP, 
in this case VLC crashes and sometimes you need to reboot or to use the 
Taskmanager to kill vlc, because the system is like "hung up". But I´ve 
tested this in a very powerfull machine (Dual Intel Xeon 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 
winXP) and in this case the system is able to recover in a few seconds.
Despite of this problem I use always VLC to preview the videos I download 
from eMule, the only precaution I take is to be sure that the begining of 
the file is completed.
Excuse me for english, I hope this may help you.

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