Can't Play Video. Video Properties Display 0 Bytes. Yet The File Size Is Correct.

[Lazmarr]

I have a few large videos which display the correct file size in windows explorer, however I cannot play them.

I looked at the properties and all unplayable ones show incomplete information.

No created, accessed, or modified dates, and show a size and size on disk of 0 bytes.

They have Japanese characters in this could be the cause of the issue.

However I am not sure what the issue is.

[TheKalmTraveler]

Do you get any form of error code?

Which Software are you using?
Have you tried opening the file with the other software like VLC?

[Lazmarr]

2 hours ago, TheKalmTraveler said:

Do you get any form of error code?

Which Software are you using?
Have you tried opening the file with the other software like VLC?

No error, other than when trying to move it/delete it I get the message "file not found".

VLC can't play the file and crashes.

I think it may be due to character length. I don't think it saved correctly since it was in subfolders and may have gone over the character limit.

[TheKalmTraveler]

Sounds like corrupted files. If you have the option to re-download the files, do it and see if They open.

Check if you have the right codec installed and update VLC to the newest version.

[Lazmarr]

2 hours ago, TheKalmTraveler said:

Sounds like corrupted files. If you have the option to re-download the files, do it and see if They open.

Check if you have the right codec installed and update VLC to the newest version.

Yeah I re-downloaded one of the smaller files to a new location directly on the disk, it works fine now. I think the issue was the length of the file's name within subdirectories reaching the 260 character limit enforced by Windows.

I'll have to re-download the other ~40GB again and rename the files ¬_¬