Torrents

That Matroska Diag works super fucking fast...but since that post was from 2007, the output no longer has a nice, concise "File Complete? Yes or No" output, so I have no idea where to see if a file is complete or not. If I could figure out how to read the output to determine that, it would solve my problem because it scans any mkv file (even the 16GB Man of Steel one (I RDP'd into my home computer)) in a matter of seconds.

It was my understanding that CuteFTP verified checksums after downloading automatically. I certainly never turned anything off. But I could easily be wrong about it being automatic too. It seems mysterious to me that it could pass the ftp download check, start playing, and then randomly stop in the middle too. But that's what it does. And it isn't an error on my NAS either. I first download them to an internal HD and then copy them over, and the original file fails too. And switching which drive it copies to makes no difference, so unless all of my drives have random glitches, that can't be it. It has to be something in the CuteFTP engine failing me. And like I said, the free trial does it to me too, so it isn't even "pirated copy = bad."

I'm stumped, but if I could read that diagnostic output properly, I'd probably be happy enough. I mean, I'd love for it to download perfectly every time, but no idea how to fix that either.

Tried out this:http://alexander-noe.com/video/mkvverify/

It takes longer, and is command line driven instead of a nice drag-and-drop GUI, but seems more intensive.

I took a file I knew was bad, the UFC fight from this weekend which stopped after 2 hours of playing perfectly, and it gave this result almost instantly:

Then I tried Man of Steel that I've been referring to (which I have not watched yet, so I'm unsure if it is good or not). Took around 5 minutes probably. This is the result I got:


I'm assuming that means there is a time code error somewhere, but I'm not certain. For reference, a file I know is clean and works perfectly gives this:
I've confirmed that result on multiple "good" files, so I have no fucking clue what that implies.

Still, if someone has a better solution, I'd love to hear it.

bambitrixi_sl said:

FTP programs don't really work all that well. I have CuteFTP but prefer using a download manager to get stuff from my seedbox. You can use a DL manager like IDM through a browser. They have a tendency to be better at multi-part downloading and putting back together.

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You aren't lying. Although, I've been having better luck lately once I got rid of the whole automated thing and just downloading them individually by myself.

I use DownThemAll, which almost every review says is fantastic for multi-part downloading. I set it to maximum parts (and many settings in-between), and I still can't max out my bandwidth to my seedbox. Also, I'm not sure if it would actually show the multiple parts or not like the ftp client does, but I only see one ".dtapart" file no matter how many parts I set it to. It could be doing it all behind the scenes, but since I can't max out my bandwidth like I can with ftp, I just don't know. However, I have seen where it will download a fairly large (several GB) file, and when it finishes my whole computer goes nonresponsive for up to 30 seconds or so, and my cpu and disk write access spikes. I'm assuming that is when it is recombining the file, which never happens if I have it set to single part, so perhaps it really is working. But not hitting max speed sort of defeats the purpose for me using it. If you have any specific tips, I'd love to hear them.

The only other advantage to ftp is that you can download an entire directory at once. With the Whatbox file manager and something like DownThemAll, you have to download each file one at a time, so if you've got 50 rar files...fuck that noise. That's the one thing I can think of that Whatbox needs to improve.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't as clear as I could have been. With CuteFTP, I max out my bandwidth when doing 8-part. With DownThemAll, where I have set it to 10-part (supposedly), it doesn't max me out ever. That's why I wonder if it is really doing multiple parts.

The reason the final 1 or 2 parts of CuteFTP don't max out your speed is because, assuming you are using a Whatbox, it is probably coming from the Netherlands and a single connection can't max you out due to distance/connections in between not being fast enough. Hence the need for an 8-part download in the first place, to max out your speed. If you could max out a single connection...you'd just download it as a single file every time.

Which now makes me wonder. I use PrivateInternetAccess as a VPN, and I'm sure there are some servers near (if not actually in) Netherlands. I wonder if I could just set it to that server and download in 1 part without issue. PIA always maxes out my speed, so I'm thinking that might work. I'll have to give it a try.