Can I create bad frames while downloading?

[acpce1]

Lately it seems as if every movie I download has multiple sections of bad frames. These are a PAIN in the neck! Is it possible that I am doing something during the downloads to create these bad frames? At the same time I started getting all of these movies with bad frames I started running several programs at once (i.e., downloading a movie and converting with TMPGEnc simultaneously). Could doing both of these at the same time cause bad frames? Maybe its a stupid question, but I just didnt' know...

Thanks!

[Hardcoreruss]

I do not know what specifically causes problems on downloaded files but I do find that if I download a film more than once (exactly the same file). One has errors in different places than the other.

My only explanation is the possible stopping and starting that is common on p2p networks causes the bad frames and incongruent picture.

Also when you encode you should never do anything else in my opinion unless you have a right beast of a pc.

[Gazorgan]

VERY common on P2P networks. Especially with 95/98 computers (their network stacks are weak). I don't think I've ever seen a full CD movie that wasn't corrupted.

How to alleviate the problem? Don't have more than 4 uploads/downloads going total. I do not mean 4 files, I mean 4 transfers. This generally means 1 upload and no more than 3 download connections at one time.

I can't tell how many times I've seen a friend doing 10 files with 10 people per file.....that's 100 minimum connections. You cable modem won't like that, much less 98 IP stack. W2K and XP are much more robust (but most people you are leeching from are 98). You can get better speed with limiting you uploads to 30%-50% of you max, and limiting your downlaods to 3-4 threads at once.

[acpce1]

That's funny... all of the things you guys said not to do, I do... I encode while I download (I've never had problems with TMPGenc while doing this...the movies turn out fine). I have an older computer: HP w/ Windows 98SE, 256MB RAM, 56K modem, pentium III, 733mHz processer...it's not a beast by any means! I don't however, do multiple uploads/downloads at a time because it takes me 35 hours per movie, and if I did several at once, it'd take 2 years to get a movie.

So, to get a consensus, do you figure that its better if I don't encode while downloading? It's just so much more time efficient if I do both at once

Thanks for the insight!

Hopefully somebody else can fill in the blanks as to why/how these bad frames occur.