| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2001 at 07:16:41 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: Thor and mpegs |
Hello Paul
On 02-Sep-01, Paul Hill wrote:
> On 01-Sep-01 08:33:06, Jack York wrote:
>> Hello Neil
>
>> On 01-Sep-01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> Jack York said,
>>>
>>>> The decoding probably failed. Save the (multiple part?) message to
>>>> disk and use a different tool like uuxt (or try using the ARexx
>>>> scripts which come with Thor...).
>>>
>>> I had tried saving the multiple parts and using a viewer on those but
>>> it says missing EOF or some such. I tried downloading UUXT and enocding
>>> the multiple parts into one file but that gives the same message.
>>> Likewise with the ARexx script uuencode.
>>
>> Use Join to join them. As long as you have the first part, uuxt, or
>> uuout, will be able to decode them. The "missing END" message only means
>> that you don't have the last part, it's a warning not an error, the
>> rest of the file still decodes.
>>
>> I gave it a try. Had three parts of an mpg. Joined them into one file and
>> tried playing it with Frogger. The message it displayed was
>> AllocBuffer:
>> EndOfFile reached.
>> No valid mpeg header found! This might be due to how it was saved in
>> Thor. When I download the files, the first one gets moved to the deldir
>> as I mentioned before. If I copy this from deldir to ram and try to play
>> it in Frogger it plays fine. But if I save that same file from within
>> Thor and try it I get the above message.
>
> After saving did you decode the messages with UUXT or similar?
That was the problem. I misunderstood about the decoding.
> The reason Thor deletes the file is because the decoding fails. It
> will always fail on a multi-part posting.
Is there a script for Thor that will decode multi-part postings?
Jack
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