"Swarmed" mpg's corrupted...again
 

I couldn't find my previous post concerning this issue, so I am reposting it here.

A swarmed download from multiple hosts often corrupts an .mpg file, not just dropped frames, but seconds worth of gaping white space that will generally crash a media player when it hits the blank spot.

Now these are NOT corrupted files at the source. I managed to download a large file -- again -- from the same host. The white frames are not there. Whatever LW is doing to divide the file for swarming and filling it again, it is not doing a good job of it.

Adding insult to injury, as the download is just completing, I get an error message tellling me that LW has detected a corruption in the file. How helpful, since it put it there to begin with.

If this bug is not fixed, at last have the option of disabling swarmed downloads. I would rather put up with slower speeds than have to download hundreds of MB's all over again due to LW's bungling.

Does this just affect MPEGs or other video formats as well? I don't think LimeWire handles swarming of MPEGs differently but I guess this format is more susceptible to getting corrupted.

Yes, it is just mpg1's. I know that if you cut an mpg1 except at a GOP (group of pictures, like a keyframe and its deltas), you get artifacts. But this is affecting the "steering stream" or whatever it is called in English and dropping out a good bit of data. Besides that, hex is hex, so it shouldn't matter if the swarm spiders at any point.