Recently, I downloaded a movie torrent. Say no more. One torrent VTS file from a complete was broken, so after the torrent stopped uploading, I was unable to DVD Shrink it. Then I went ahead and deleted those 8corruptive files from PC. (Still no joy -- my PC still couldn't read the entire movie, or open it in DVDShrink, so right now I cannot burn the movie onto a DVD. Any program out there to help? Do I know convert those VTS and video files into an ISO? Or, if not, what then. Cheers all.... BB
Can anybody offer guidance? Basically, as I said, one VTS file was bad and corrupted in some for. It was VTS_05_1. As I said, I deleted that file from my hard drive, thinking, obviously mistakenly, that with that bad file now gone, the rest would be ok (and I could finally DVD Shrink the whole movie, ready for a burn with DVD Decrypyter). Anyway, is there any way to patch up what I've done? And what program can I use to do it? Thanks in advance, RS
Why don't you download the missing parts? Open the torrent again and select the files you deleted. You also use the torrent program to check the existing files. In Utorrent, it's "force re-check".
Your going to have to re-download the missing files, there is noway around it. You may be able to convert the files, but part of the movie will be missing.
Thanks -- but the movie's torrent download is only one VTS file which contains the whole 4.7 GB movie. So I can't select which file I want and download just that one now. Of course, I could download the torrent movie again, but that'll take ages. (Last time, the whole download took days.) Btw, I'm using UTorrent 1.8.1, and there's no "force re-check" option there.
I'm also using 1.8.1, and the recheck does exist. In the main window, stop the torrent and right click it, you'll see if 4th from the bottom. Restart when check is done. What was the name of the file you downloaded? Was it a zip, or a video_ts folder?
Yes, you're right, now found re-check. Won't help me now, since I already deleted the bittorrent from UTorrent. Got frustrated . Anyway, for future purposes, what does "recheck" in UTorrent do? (It can't repair a bad file, can it? Does it try to correct it, to make it playable?) Btw, it was a video_ts folder. (4.7 GB, as I said before.)
No, all it tells you is if the torrent is complete. I think it does some kind of crc check on the data and checks it against info in the *.torrent file itself. It can be useful if a torrent has been moved or if you're trying to restart a torrent that you had stopped before. If you re-download the torrent wait for it to start and create the output folders, you can stop the torrent, copy the old data back in, then do the check. It will recognize it, and only download what it needs to finish.
