avi repair help?

[ralphie1313]

hi i was capturing video from my 3com web cam using 3com software homeconnect and it was going fine untill i went to hit the stop button and it frooze but the video is on my hard drive but wont open is there ayway to repair it or view it. thanks very much

[ralphie1313]

can no one help me!!!!!?

[ralphie1313]

ok does anyone know even if it can be done? thanks

[gll99]

If it's an avi, you can try to open it with virtualdub. In the file open dalogue there is checkmark to "popup extended open options"

You can then select "redrive keyframes" it will be slow but wait til it's done.

Then once its done choose "direct stream copy for both the video and audio menu selections and then save the avi to a new name using save as under the file menu. This will be very fast.

You can also recompress the video and audio if you want to but then you choose full processing audio and video modes instead of direct stream and choose the compression codec settings for both the audio and video.

[gll99]

PS

I just noticed that you may not have audio.

Sorry... If there is no audio then select "no audio" in virtualdub under the audio menu instead of direct stream copy"

[ralphie1313]

ok i tried every option and it keeps saying when i try to open the file "cannot determine file type" i guess i should explain i was recording from my web cam 3com using there softwere homeconnect when i went to stop capturing it frooze and i had to end program but 1 gig of it is on my hard drive so is there anyway to make it work.... thanks

[unclebud]

You don't say what the file appears to be "cap.avi" or "cap.mpg" or "cap.temp".
You might try renaming the file.

[ralphie1313]

sorry it says cap.avi and i tried renameing it to mpg, dvi, i treid tmg to restore it.. am i out of options

[gll99]

Other possible options:

1) Do a GOOGLE search under "avi fix repair" some shareware and freeware software is available that you may be able to try.

2) Contact the software vendor (3com) via email and explain your problem see if they can help.