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murasame · #2 (**permalink**) October 16th, 2004

Well, the corruption it detects is the same kind of corruption that you can have while downloading directly frrom the internet: a download gets corrupted during the process of download and a faulty Byte or two appear, making LW recognise it as corrupt (that's my own explanation to the thing. Wait for devs and/or other "techies" to clear things up). This files will mostly play fine (in certain players) but you might encounter slight corruptions of the image and/or sound when the player reads the corrupt byte(s). In Quicktime player (for example), while playing back a vid with a corrupt byte, the player might interpret it as a stop point, thus ending a 700M file prematurely. VLC will play that file fine (Almost. Some corrupt files will freeze the image at the corruption point but the sound will keep going or vice-versa) but I've found that the smoothest player for that kind of thing is mplayer.
Too bad it doesn't support subtitles in .ogm (and maybe .mkv too)...