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Sorry in advance if this was posted already.
During playback on my laptop that's connected to my TV.
The movie will stop about 1/4 or 1/2 way through, and then a pop up window shows up. Is says something about " files are bad"
I have a new laptop, windows 10, and VLC is updated.
Any ideas on how to fix this????????
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What happens when you playback NOT connected to your TV?
What happens when you playback with Windows Media Player?
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No, you aren't paying attention.
When you play a movie in VLC, a specific movie, and it stops 1/4 of the way through.
What happens when you play that exact same movie in Windows Media Player? Does it stop at the exact same place?
The reason for the question is because VLC is very very good at playing damaged or incomplete files. If it is telling you the files are bad, they're almost certainly bad.
In which case you force recheck the files in your torrent client to see whether they have become corrupted on your hard disk (perhaps there are some bad sectors). If they have (and the recheck comes to less than 100% you can fix the files by restarting the download.
If they haven't, and the recheck comes to 100%, then either the files were bad when the torrent was created, and there is nothing you can do to fix that. Delete them, and download some new ones. Or, if they play fine in Windows Media Player, then there is a problem with VLC. Download a different version. [Or just use WMP when VLC fails. The playback quality will usually be better with WMP anyway, it's just not as flexible or resilient.]
