In a similar vein, AVIPreview lets you view a partially-complete AVI (I wonder what genius decided to put the index at the back of the file).
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AVI_Preview.htm
as the main site appears down right now.
Useful for deciding whether it's worth waiting for the other 95% of that file.
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I've seen that Kazaar lets you preview the video file whilst downloading it. Clever.
I'm sure there's gotto be a way to use mplayer for this too.
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In a similar vein, AVIPreview lets you view a partially-complete AVI (I wonder what genius decided to put the index at the back of the file). http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AVI_Preview.htm as the main site appears down right now. Useful for deciding whether it's worth waiting for the other 95% of that file.