video corrupted when downloaded from server

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Sep 29 11:56:55 EDT 2009


tareq_tawaiha wrote:
> I am trying to download ".avi" videos from a ftp server. When i use an ftp
> client like "filezilla" , i can download any avi and no problems occur.
> However when i try to download it using RunRev it gets corrupted. It either
> plays the video choppy , with green screen, with no screen, with a black
> background or with audio only.  
> 
> The avi files i am testing with are no larger than 10 MB, this number might
> go up to 50 MB . 
> 
> here is the code i am using 
> 
> put fld "ftp folder" of card "ftpcommandG" of stack "studentWork" into
> tServer 
> (this will put the server connection ftp://USER:Pass@site.com) 
> 
> 
>  if tFile ends with curTimeT&".avi" then
>          put tFile into tMovieFileName
>          put tServer & tMovieFileName into tServerPath
>          put tFolder &tMoviefilename into tFolderPathMovie
>          put URL tServerPath into URL tFolderPathMovie
>          wait for messages


The code doesn't show us the local path in tFolderPathMovie, but make 
sure it starts with "binfile:" rather than "file:".

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