My video files are getting corrupt.

[PZO]

Hi
I have a problem know one has propably heard of before... Some of my .avi and .mpg files are getting destroyd. I have no idea why.
I know for sure that thay have worked fine before. But after a while they turn into one large audio file.

The file size and name are the exactly the same. When viewing the file with gspot it reports that the file is one large MPEG-1 Layer 3 VBR 44100.

And the most weird thing is that the audio in the file is somehow from my mp3s... Theese mp3s i have on a different harddrive partition.
Why does this happend? This in not a prank. Know one i have talked to has ever heard of this problem before.
Please help. I am going mad.
And i do defrag my drivers.

[setarip]

Sounds like you've contracted a virus...

[DrinkOrDie]

Well it's a good thing he defrags his drivers! lol.

[PZO]

Originally posted by DrinkOrDie
Well it's a good thing he defrags his drivers! lol.

Well what am i suppose to do. I have not a clue why my video files are getting destroyd. I guess you might have a clue whats wrong with my pc.
As for viruses, i have been using norton internet security for a long while and it is updated.

[setarip]

You might want to copy one of your videos to a CD and try to play it on another PC...


(By the way, I believe "DrinkOrDie" is making fun of you stating that you defragged your DRIVERS, instead of DRIVES)

[Easier Way?]

Is it bad to defrag video data? I did it once using the norton software (which has a good visual display) and it seemed to seperate the avi data blocks into 2 bundles, presumably seperated audio and video?

[setarip]

"it seemed to seperate the avi data blocks into 2 bundles, presumably seperated audio and video?"

Defragmenting simply puts places linked blocks of file data in sequence on your hard drive. It has nothing to do with the TYPE of data (audio, video, numeric, text, graphics)...

[DrinkOrDie]

Originally posted by setarip
You might want to copy one of your videos to a CD and try to play it on another PC...


(By the way, I believe "DrinkOrDie" is making fun of you stating that you defragged your DRIVERS, instead of DRIVES)

I would never...

[Easier Way?]

Hi Setarip,
Delay due to work and sleep.
You are right, I was surprised at the time. It was a few years ago and I have been wary of defragmenting video data ever since.
It was on an old pc with little 4 gig hard disks so the block resolution during defrag was very high.. I saw a huge file with repeating identically spaced elements of two different types. I forget if it actually was a vob, a mpeg or an avi. I did the defrag using old norton utilities v3.0 (c 1997) and it seemed to deinterleave the avi type data.
I now empty my video drive rather than defrag it. Maybe I would be OK using modern defragmentation software?

[setarip]

"You are right"

My pleasure ;>}

[DrinkOrDie]

Easier Way? says: "....I have been wary of defragmenting video data ever since"

.

and... "I now empty my video drive rather than defrag it. Maybe I would be OK using modern defragmentation software?"



I say: Maybe 'Easier Way' is right just like 'Setarip' says. You should just stick to defragmenting regular data, and skip the video data. And I also think it would be wise to use 'modern' defragmentation software, as opposed to the old-fashoned kind.