Questions on a Downloaded Video Clip

[moviebuff2]

Hi,

I just downloaded a video clip (.mpeg) and have a few questions regarding this clip.

1) Windows Explorer indicates the clip size to be +170MB. When I played it on a Windows Media Player, the time is shown as 1:26:57 (almost 1.5 hrs.). How can a clip with 1.5 hr. have only 170MB? All my other 1.5-hr video clips have almost 1GB each; and they are only VCD, not SVCD.

2) I could play only a portion of the downloaded video clip. Why? Is there some kind of secret code to play the entire clip?

3) I could burn the clip onto a CD but I cannot copy the clip from the CD to another computer.

Thanks for all you helps.

[andkiich]

Most likely the file was not completely downloaded, but the header has the full files information.

Downloaded file are a crapshoot. I find it better to make my own sources. I know what I have to work with and I know that the files will be as good as they can be, because I am in control of the whole process.