View partially downloaded video mp4

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August 10, at August 11, at If you are one of those who download videos from BitTorrents site on a regular basis, you will know that the quality of the downloaded video is sometime not what you have expected it to be. After spending plenty of hours downloading only to find that it is a poor cam quality video can indeed be a frustrating experience. I know how that feels cause it happened to me all the time. Now, while you are downloading the movies, wouldn't it be great if you can preview it, check out its quality and then decide if you want to continue the download?

We all know that VLC is a versatile media player that can play almost any media format you throw to it. Well, another thing that you can get it to do is to repair and playback the partially downloaded video. Open your VLC and load the video file. Jay I don't think it's very likely you'll be able to do so, if not all of the PE header was written, no application will identify the format most common. More over, file downloading isn't sequential, chunks of data are downloaded individually.

Then the last thing that happens is the data is assembled in the correct order, if this step wasn't completed then watching the MP4 is not going to be a viable option. You often buy their original video rights online and download the same after its release. Recently, you start surfing and find an interesting rare Breaking Bad special video of MP4 format.

You immediately start downloading the video; although the download got interrupted for few times but then again the episode got downloaded successfully. Nonetheless, when you anxiously try to watch the video clip, it displayed an error notification. Due to interruption while download process, your MP4 file got downloaded partially. I wish VLC had an Open As feature where you could specify an openable file to tell it what to do and then open an unopenable file using the same approach.

But I guess with video it is harder than it is with Photoshop Open As feature. Normally VLC will report a hundred audio and video streams in an unopenable file. Why not use only one? I wish every body used Matroska.

By the way, you can use MkvMerge to split video files in any specified size chinks and output them as MKV. And trust me, they will play when played in VLC! Last edited by kurbads; 23rd Dec at Cann't tell it's possible don't tell anything.