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    Hello,

    I'm new to this community and I wish you could help me with a video I recently downloaded.

    The video is 900Mb and 1h04 duration but when I went to play it, it freezes at 00:12:33. Tried VLC, WMP, Media PLayer Classic. When I open it with VLC a message appears that the file is broken...and offers tyhe option to repair it or not. If I choose don't repair i could watch only the first 12 minutes and if I let it repair it starts to do the job but hangs at 19%

    I then tried opening it with VirtualDub. It starts reconstructing the missing index block...Takes about 20 minutes to go through the 900Mb but then it recognizes only 22575 frames/12 minutes. Closed it and reopened it with VD checking the option "re-derive keyframe flags" only. Result; 12 minutes. Reopened again with VD with the options "re-derive keyframe flags" and "Open in AVIFile compatibility mode" checked. Result: a freezed VD.

    Same thing with VirtualDubMOd.

    It then occurred to me converting the whole avi using Total Video Converter. When the converted file reached 124Mb I opened it with VLC hoping I've got some 20 minutes video. Result: 0 duration.

    The surprise was when I used GSPOT: no codec problem but it says: Video 157Mb (17.5%). Audio:17.2Mb (1.92%) and AVI Overhead: 725Mb (80.58%)

    Last I tried AviMedic. It says that there is about 17% real data and 83% fake data??


    These are the results from MediaInfo and GSpot

    Is this a hopless situation? Thanks

    MediaInfo:
    General
    Complete name : C:\Downloads\FileServe Manager\Home To Danger (1951).avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    File size : 900 MiB
    Duration : 1h 4mn
    Overall bit rate : 1 959 Kbps
    Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
    Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

    Video
    ID : 0
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
    Format settings, BVOP : 1
    Format settings, QPel : No
    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Custom
    Codec ID : XVID
    Codec ID/Hint : XviD
    Duration : 1h 4mn
    Bit rate : 1 680 Kbps
    Width : 624 pixels
    Height : 480 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 1.300
    Frame rate : 29.970 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.187
    Stream size : 772 MiB (86%)
    Writing library : XviD 1.3.0.dev55

    Audio
    ID : 1
    Format : AC-3
    Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
    Mode extension : CM (complete main)
    Codec ID : 2000
    Duration : 1h 4mn
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 192 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Channel positions : Front: L R
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth : 16 bits
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 88.3 MiB (10%)
    Alignment : Split accross interleaves



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    I would normally say that sounds like a trick some fake uploaders do. They just present a few minutes of video and the rest of the file is padded with junk. But that appears to be an older video. Maybe just a corrupted file. I suspect there is likely no way to repair it. You could open it in something like VirtualDub's Hex Editor. I suspect you may see a lot of zeros if anything past the initial 12 minutes shows.
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    Gspot is telling you there is only around 150mbs of video data ... either the downloaded file wasnt processed prior to completeion or its a dud file ... choose your sources more carefully.
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    Thanks for your replies and advice. I think that something went wrong during the downloading of the file because I don't see why someone would fill with junk a video of a movie of the 50's few are interested in.

    I will try to download it again and let you know.
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    Did you download it from a torrent? if so, you should be able to get the torrent program to do a hash check.
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  6. Your file was messed up during upload or download. I did a search and found what appears to be the exact same video -- same size, codecs, frame size, etc. It had no problems.
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    No, that was downloaded from a filserve.com, direct link.

    Thanks jagabo, I was desperately looking for this movie and found no other places to get it other that on filserve, so it is the same file.
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  8. I got it from fileserve.com. Your file was corrupted while downloading. Just download it again.
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    Thanks, I will.
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    Hi, you know what is the real problem here.
    The FILESERVE MANAGER, I downloaded two files (videos.avi) using it and none of them work at all, It doesn't matter the player I use to watch them.
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