I use from more than a year Pinnacle Studio 9 and a Pinnacle PCI capture card connected to the Sat decoder to record video.
The problems is not so frequent but, as always, seems to know when appearing so as to cause the major possible damage (Murphy teaches). Like today.
The problem arises when the Pinnacle studio 9 application crashes (for unknown reasons) while recording (i.e.: before clicking on the 'STOP record' button and then regularly closing Studio 9 application). The AVI file generated is present on the hard disk, its dimension seems to be equivalent to n hours of recording, but no application can open it. Some apps simply crash while other (like Virtualdub) tell that they cannot recognize the type of file.

I've already read in the past many times the 'How To fix damaged avi files' guide and tried to apply the suggested apps to repair the damaged AVI file, but with no success. Most of those apps seem to consider only the problems arising from partial downloads, my case is something related to uncomplete recording, probably a missing index file that is put into the AVI file from Studio 9 at THE END of the recording.

By comparing the damaged AVI file with a good one (using an hex editor) it's quite clear that the good AVI file has an header that is probably also an index of the following content, while the damaged one has only a blank starting header.

Anybody that has a problem like this and positively solved it?

TIA

Roberto