Can't defreez avi, because I can't open it!

rbradeen · Member Joined: 09 Jul 2001 Location: Washington DC

Ok I was trying to convert a 400MB avi to vcd using TPMGEnc, but naturally it had at least one frozen frame. So did some research on how to get rid of that frozen frame. The nearly unanimous word is to use VirtualDub in order to chop out the problem section. I open the file in VirtualDub and give it the open option to re-key the frames. I notice that as it starts reading the 400MB file it gets about maybe 10% or less through it and then goes to another window where it is indexing the frames. After it finishes that the file is open...no problems right? Wrong, I only have about 4 minutes of about an hour and a half movie. The movie plays just fine in Media Player (except when it get to the frozen frame at 12 minutes and 37 seconds the vid freezes and the audio continutes, got another offshoot of the divx codec that actully plays through it now pretty cool). Well at any rate VirtualDub only loads like I said about 4/4 and a half minutes of the movie...and I need to get to 12:37. No dice...so I decide to try a couple of other methods. First I try AVIEdit which as I quickly find out will not only not open that file will not open any of my avi files. I also tried AVIDefreezer which will not open any avi files either. So I'm at a real loss, any help would be much appreciated. Oh I also am running win2k if that has any bearing on things.

Thanks in advance,
Bob

gambit32 · Evil_petting Zoo Joined: 01 Apr 2001

Have you tried to divfix it? You can download divfix from the tools section. Rebuild the index and then try load it into whatever program you were trying to use.

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rbradeen · Member Joined: 09 Jul 2001 Location: Washington DC

Yeah good try but that file has been run through divfix a few times. At first I was actually having a problem playing it at all and divfix .... well fixed that problem...but the frozen frame is still there, and divfix dosen't seem to be much help with that. Good try and thanks......but NO SOUP FOR YOU!

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On 2001-07-10 20:55:38, gambit32 wrote:
Have you tried to divfix it? You can download divfix from the tools section. Rebuild the index and then try load it into whatever program you were trying to use.