How to fix a divx file ?

[txl]

Hello

I have a problem with a divx file of an old TV show.

It seems the colors are completely "crazy", i have tried with divfix but it didn't solve the problem, I can see the file properties in avicodec and virtualdub but I can't solve this.

Here's a screenshot of what I have using MPC player, divx, winamp, and WMP give the same funny thing



Thanks for the help

[Gurm]

Well you could try VLC, which doesn't use codecs at all but rather its own decoding engine.

However, what you are seeing MIGHT be the result of some OTHER codec being registered to playback that sort of file.

DIVX, XVID, and a few others "fight" over the divx and xvid codec registration. Get the absolute latest version of DIVX, install it, then get the absolute latest XVID and install THAT. Then make sure that you tell XVID NOT to take over the DIVX playback.

See if that helps.

[theDruid]

Is your video like that all the way through?

It looks more like bad frames to me than a codec problem, but I could of course be wrong.

Have you tried Scan Video Stream for Errors in VirtualDub or VirtualDub mp3-freeze?

By-the-way if you press ALT with Print Screen to do a screen dump, you'll only copy the window with focus (Media Player Classic) to the clipboard, rather than your whole screen. As good as I think Opera is, we don't really need to see it!

cheers,
theDruid.

[txl]

Hello,

I've tried searching for errors in virtualdub as you said but all is fine, the file is divx 5.2.1 says virtualdub, i've installed the latest XVID codecs and told them NOT to decode divx but it still won't do.

What is the VLC program mentioned by gurm ?

Thanks for the help

[Cobra]

Did you know that you can capture just the active application window by pressing Alt-PrtScn?

[txl]

no i didn't know about that too.

of course if I had known I would have kept opera out of the way, maybe I can redo it and keep an IE background ?

[theDruid]

VLC is Video Lan Client (if the automatic tool link doesn't pick that up, just go and look in the Tools section of this site, under Video Players).

You didn't answer whether the whole video is playing back like that, or just certain segments. It's looks to me more like a corrupted video stream (despite VirtualDub not finding any bad frames) than a codec problem.. but I'm not 100% sure about that.

P.S. Cobra - is there an echo in here? :P

By-the-way if you press ALT with Print Screen to do a screen dump, you'll only copy the window with focus (Media Player Classic) to the clipboard, rather than your whole screen. As good as I think Opera is, we don't really need to see it!

cheers,
theDruid.

[txl]

entire video is like that,

trying VLC right now, will post result in 5 mins

Thanks

[txl]

plays fine in VLC !!!

so next question is how do I extract the frames using VLC or VLC's codec engine ?

Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

I'd say it's a codec problem. Possibly a codec conflict problem. Have you tried ffdshow?

/Mats

[txl]

I've installed ffdshow and no changes at all, still plays fine in VLC and crap in all others.

How can i use VLC to extract the "good" video feed and reencode it to something usable by "the rest of the world" ?

Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

Does it look bad in VirtualDub too?

/Mats

[Gurm]

Ok, *sigh* you didn't listen to me, so I'll try again.

Download G-Spot.

http://gspot.headbands.com/

It will tell you what DIVX/XVID version that file uses. It will ALSO tell you who is rendering it. UNINSTALL whatever software is currently rendering the file, then REINSTALL the latest version of the correct codec.

That will permanently solve your problem.

I'm guessing you installed some kind of codec pack or something, or that you put in one of the (many) retrograde XVID builds.

[Skith]

I bet it is an old DivX 3.xx low motion encoded file.
You could try the following codec:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DivX_3.11

[txl]

Here's the screen result of gspot



Now what do i do with it is another question

Thanks


PS : Thanks for the alt+print screen trick !!!!

[jimmalenko]

Just blowing it up for everone