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mykillk

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Playing partially downloaded videos?
« on: December 22, 2012, 07:14:41 pm »

Firefox likes to add a .part extension to unfinished downloads and, although they are watchable in other programs, MC18 will not play them. Is there any way to play these files? Thanks.
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Re: Playing partially downloaded videos?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2012, 08:33:23 pm »

These are incomplete files.  That other programs will attempt playback probably shouldn't be expected of all programs.
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Re: Playing partially downloaded videos?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2012, 09:10:35 pm »

Why not? The LAV splitter will handle it properly, at least for the types of files where incomplete playback works (such as .mkv). It's simply a matter of JRiver not recognizing the file extension and not even making an attempt at playback. You can rename a complete file to have an unknown file extension and JRiver won't play it either. JRiver should make some attempt to play a file with an unrecognized file extension, or at least allow the user to add custom file extensions to the file type list.
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Re: Playing partially downloaded videos?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2012, 09:20:16 pm »

Add the file type if you want it:

   <programfiles86>\J River\Media Center 18\Data\Default Resources\FileAssociations.xml
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Re: Playing partially downloaded videos?
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2012, 09:20:51 pm »

excellent, just what I needed, thanks.

EDIT: Tested and confirmed to work
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