hard drive problems, affect blurays

[krohm]

So I have a hard drive that was used as a backup for my blurays. When watching a couple of them recently they were stuttering. I'm wondering if the files are completely toast. I don't want to start watching through all the movies to see if the files are corrupted. And I don't want to rerip all of them. Is there anything I can do to check the integrity of the files? Any software or any other course of action?

Cheers

[sum_guy]

I would try copying the ones that are stuttering to another drive and see if they stutter, I would also try them in different players i.e. VLC and see if they stutter, if you have a drive problem you better start moving them to another drive.

[krohm]

tried copying them to diff drive, they do stutter..

[gll99]

Could you tell us how you are watching them? Is it on a computer via usb or re-installed back onto a sata controller on the mb? IF so which player software are you using? Maybe it's attached to an external player device of some type connected to a TV etc... if so which one? Anything you can add might help solve the problem. I wouldn't be too quick to conclude that the files are bad. That's highly unlikely unless you never checked them after you created them and just kept repeating the same error. It certainly wouldn't be my first guess.

[krohm]

pc via mpc

and na i used to watch them, just havent in a while

so is there any software where i can check the integrity rather than watching them randomly ?

[gll99]

If they played before then they are probably fine. As was suggested before try another player. I prefer Daum Potplayer. If that doesn't help I'd also try changing the default Video renderer. Yoiu can do it within Potplayer to test. Also make sure you don't have multiple videos players running in the background. I used to have trouble with MPC staying in memory even though I had cancelled a previous play. You might want to check the list of active tasks before doing anything else. Whenever I've had any issues with stuttering videos it was consistent for all similar HD type. BD's played with PowerDVD played fine and yet and if I just played the main m2ts file via another software player it would stutter. I found that it was either the default renderer that had been changed by an installed app or the audio switcher.

I don't know much about win8 64 bit so don't want to give you false info. What I did in XP is check the default renderer using Gspot to see what filters were being used to render the file. Then I installed ffdshow and assigned the ffdshow internal codecs for the video and audio that was applicable to content in my files. More often than not my video files use AVC and AC3 or AAC. It solved the stuttering issues.

EDIT: I doubt you will find any software to check the integrity fo your videos it wouldn't know what to look for.