sterndi1 Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Hi.uTorrent version: 1.8.3@15772XPHomeSP2 I download a big (8GB) torrent containing 7 videos - while downloading a couple of minutes i decided to skip 5 of the videos which have a DL% from 0.4% to 3%. I opened the containing folder and loaded the skipped files into VLC-Player just for amusement. Now I come to the point: 1 of those AVIs shows 20min of a private video file of my own originally stored on another drive and the seed goes on!!! I copied out the complete file to another directory and it's still the same: 20min of a holiday video, originally mpeg2 stored in a skipped AVI file in- and outside uTorrent! So do the uTorrent and IT-experts have any idea what might be happening here?! The torrent itself is public with a lot of trackers. Whatever it is - it's REALLY peculiar!Kind regards from Sterndi1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 And previously discussed.It has to do with the way files are preallocated and it's more an issue with VLC and trying to preview incomplete files than it is with uT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sterndi1 Posted September 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 A MPClassic, WMPlayer, BSPlayer, PDVD issue as well? Sorry, but this answer isn't satisfying at all. This video of mine is originally stored on another physical drive and hasn't been played for weeks. This content has no business being in an incomplete video file in uTorrent in my opinion. Checking this "incomplete AVI" with GSpot it detects an Mpeg2 file with 7500kbps (!) - still a player issue? :'-(How to convince me the private clip isn't "shared"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=60113Then disable diskio.no_zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Your private video has surely been stored on the HD where you save your current torrents (like the 8-GB torrent with 7 videos).By a game of preallocation, VLC plays the ghost video.Remember deleting a file is not changing all the bits of the file, just the pointer of the file is deleted.Edit: in addition that's weird VLC tries to link existing files and deleted files, maybe a possible "bug" in this player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 sterndi1 said, "How to convince me the private clip isn't "shared"?"Do you even want to be convinced with the truth, or have you already made up your mind?*ANY* proper BitTorrent client will only share data that has passed hash tests. Every piece of a torrent is hashed. The receivers of such a piece already know in advance what the hash value is for that piece, and their clients will automatically reject and re-download any piece that fails hash. They likely will have no way of knowing what the incorrect data even was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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