problem with avi - divxrepair crashes .... help? please

[CaptainChaos]

Hi

I have an avi and when i play it, at 1h10m, the picture goes all blocky & shuts divxplayer down.

I used divxrepair on it & it told me something about crash dump (or something).

The weird thing is that if (in divxplayer) I "jump" over the bit where it goes wrong(by manually moving the play cursor), it carries on playing fine, but if I try to play from 1h09m onwards, it freezes again.

I guess its a bad frame that messes it all up .... Is there a way I can get rid of the bad frame(s) and how do I do it?

I've got divxrepair, TMPGEnc DVD Author, cinemacraft encoder, DVD2SVCD, besweet, Gspot & Virtualdub ... will any of these help? How do I find out which frame starts the "corruption"?

Thanks in advance.

Ian

[Tommyknocker]

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[CaptainChaos]

I used the virtualdub_mp3_freeze program that was suggested & did the "check video for freezes" ..........

It got to the same poiunt that everything else froze (virtual dub & divxrepair) and .... froze ..... chucking up a crash report that is too lengthy to go into here, but ending with ..... "Crash reason: Access Violation Could not open debug resource file."

Any ideas now?

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

I would delete the portion of the video that causes the crash, and make a new video. Then see what happens.

[CaptainChaos]

I would love to do that but how?? All the programs Ive used so far just crash on or around frame 100000! (I cant count that fast when its scanning it) lol

Its weird because it seems that one frame (or thereabouts) stops everything - if I manually move the "play cursor" on by a few seconds after the bad frame(s), it carries on playing normally - if I try to play through the bad bit - it all gets messed up & doesnt recover......

[Tommyknocker]

Click here.

[CaptainChaos]

Thanks Tommyknocker, but I clicked that & followed that tutorial earlier & it didnt work .,,,,,,,,,,