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Admin: Solution - one download at a time.
As I have been going through my downloaded files, I have been noticing that there are many of them that are corrupted. Specifically, they are the non-original ones that are listed under the Valve Index section. Generally, the corruption isn't that the files are totally unplayable (although I have an example of that), but rather, the playback just stops minutes before the end. Using Avidemux, I see that a thing called a "keyframe" is missing in them (whatever that is).
In some cases, I have corrected the problem simply by downloading the files again and assume the corruption occurred during the downloading the first time. But I have a whole bunch of them for which this doesn't work. Saving them as mkv and then trying to save them again as mp4 doesn't work, either. That keyframe doesn't get automatically put into the file by changing the format.
I could of course download the "original" versions, but since they are so huge, it is a terrible waste of space since the videos appear great with my HP Reverb with the non-original files. I don't know what I would have to do in Avidemux to convert an original to the reduced format you saved them in.
When I first noticed the problem yesterday, I started mentioning the corruption in the comments section where I download them, but I have found so many now, that is a bit of a fuss and maybe there is a better place for me to bring them to your attention.
I am surprised that people aren't pointing this out, but maybe guys just aren't noticing that scenes are short because they don't last long enough before blowing their load and quitting the video.
Please advise.