How to repair AVI file

[fmctm1sw]

About half the time I convert with TMPGenc, it freezes. Almost invariably, the AVI in question has a few dropped frames (not many). I counted 9 out of about 7500 on a test run I did last night. Would I be better off just running every AVI through a repair app? I saw a bunch of DivX repair stuff but no AVI. Is there such a thing?

[wee haggis]

You can still use DivFix.

You may have to extract the frames with Virtualdub

[pijetro]

If it's not Divx, then try going (in Vdub) to Video>scan stream for errors. Give it a try. I never used it personally though. Good luck!!!!!
BTW, I'm guessing you should put both Video and Audio in Direct Stream Copy.

[snowmoon]

Almost everone has dropped frames on capture, it's the nature of the beast. Personally I use the excuse to clean up the video in vdub and save it to huffyuv, no more dropped frames.

You could also frame serve it to tmpgenc, that will correct the droped frames problem too.

[KingJohn]

About half the time I convert with TMPGenc, it freezes. Almost invariably, the AVI in question has a few dropped frames (not many). I counted 9 out of about 7500 on a test run I did last night. Would I be better off just running every AVI through a repair app? I saw a bunch of DivX repair stuff but no AVI. Is there such a thing?

You should try to stop the problem at source, Vdub does have a scan for junk frames, but it can give problems.

Instead use a modified version called "vdub-mp3-freeze.exe" it makes a log of the bad frames at c:\badframes.log which you can use to delete the bad frames, starting with the highest block and marking and the nearest keyframes.

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/virtualdub.html