| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 2 Sep 2001 at 11:01:04 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Re: Thor and mpegs |
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?
The reason Thor deletes the file is because the decoding fails. It
will always fail on a multi-part posting.
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