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
GSpot:
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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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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.
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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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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. -
I got it from fileserve.com. Your file was corrupted while downloading. Just download it again.
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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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