Video Problems

When I downloaded a video off bearshare that was about 800 MB, it only played like 41 seconds of it on any player. Whats weird is I could skip around to different seconds and it could go to different scenes. Anyway to fix this problem?

Its a winamp media file

mpg file, sorry

The file is probably damaged. Try more players, because some are better at others at playing through files.

it might also be a problem related to your machine's capabilities and the fact that when you download a file its parts are spread all over your drive (i.e. the file is heavily fragmented)...with a slower cpu with a low amount of RAM this can cause the effect you are describing...it can of course also be a bad file...

if you have another drive available (either by partition or another physical HDD) move the file over (it will automatically get defragmented) and try playing from that location...even with modern machines monthly defragmentation is a good thing, with older machines weekly is many times required for good performance

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