Hi, thank you for your reply.

The file size of the preview does change as download does on. but i am not able to pass a certain point in the preview..

mplayer,xine,vlc(windows) all fail at the same point(14%) of the video.

but the download goes on and every time i preview, the size of preview file does increase..

i even tried to directly open the preview file from nautilus after it is being created in limewire.

but the results are the same.
I even uninstalled and reinstalled limewire.

Thanks again..

Regards,
Easwaran.K.V