Not Able to Play AVI.File

[denden1231]

Hi all, I have encountered a problem as follow,

I have recorded a video by using a webcam recorder and save it as an avi.file.
However, I can't open it. I have tried different kinds of software, such as media player classic etc, it doesn't work as well.

I get the following message when I open it with GOM Player:


The following is the binary information of the file failed to play.
--------------------
BINARY INFO
--------------------
FileName : 2013-1-27 02.07.16.AVI
Header Data :
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

What can I do ? Thanks very much for your help.

[Baldrick]

It looks like it doesn't contain anything at all.

Try open it with mediainfo and see what it says.

Try also play with VLC Media Player.

[aedipuss]

delete it. it's a completely empty file.

[denden1231]

It looks like it doesn't contain anything at all.

Try open it with mediainfo and see what it says.

Try also play with VLC Media Player.

Thanks for helping. I have downloaded mediainfo and the result is as follow:

General
Count : 280
StreamCount : 1
StreamKind : General
StreamKind/String : General
StreamKindID : 0
Inform : CompleteName : E:\2013-1-27 02.07.16.AVI
FileSize/String : 16.0 GiB

CompleteName : E:\2013-1-27 02.07.16.AVI
FolderName : E:
FileName : 2013-1-27 02.07.16
FileExtension : avi
FileSize : 17226502144
FileSize/String : 16.0 GiB
FileSize/String1 : 16 GiB
FileSize/String2 : 16 GiB
FileSize/String3 : 16.0 GiB
FileSize/String4 : 16.04 GiB
StreamSize : 17226502144
StreamSize/String : 16.0 GiB (100%)
StreamSize/String1 : 16 GiB
StreamSize/String2 : 16 GiB
StreamSize/String3 : 16.0 GiB
StreamSize/String4 : 16.04 GiB
StreamSize/String5 : 16.0 GiB (100%)
StreamSize_Proportion : 1.00000

Is there any ways for me to recover the file ? I have tried open the file with VLC but it doesn't seem work too ....

[hello_hello]

VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod will try to repair AVI files if need be when you open them, although I think yours is beyond that. If successful though, you can resave it as a fresh AVI using DirectStreamCopy as the video compression method (no re-encoding). It can't hurt to try.

[denden1231]

VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod will try to repair AVI files if need be when you open them, although I think yours is beyond that. If successful though, you can resave it as a fresh AVI using DirectStreamCopy as the video compression method (no re-encoding). It can't hurt to try.

Thanks for answering. I have tried to use VirtualDub to repair the file, however when I tried to open the file in VirtualDub, a dialog box poped up with message: The file "E:\2013-1-27 02.07.16. AVI" is of an unknown or unsupported file type" ;(

Besides, for VirtualDubMod, it also fails to recover my file. A dialog box with message "Cannot detect file type of "E:\2013-1-27 02.07.16.AVI" is poped up when I tried to open the file. ;(

What should I do ? ...

Anyway, thanks for your reply.

[Baldrick]

It's probably empty as aedipuss says because it's only zeros in the gom player header preview.

You could also open the avi with a hex editor to check the entire file, like http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor/3000-2352_4-10891068.html .If it's only zeros/dots in the hex editor it's empty.

[denden1231]

It's probably empty as aedipuss says because it's only zeros in the gom player header preview.

You could also open the avi with a hex editor to check the entire file, like http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor/3000-2352_4-10891068.html .If it's only zeros/dots in the hex editor it's empty.

Baldrick, thanks for you reply!

I have checked the file with hex editor. The file is not only zeros/dots. The first 1500 row is zeros and dots, while the rest are not. So is it possible for me to cut the first 1500 row's zeros/dots ? so that I can recover my video ?

Thanks very much

[netmask56]

Re MediaInfo if you set the view to Text you will get more meaningful information.

Like this as an example

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 856 MiB
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Overall bit rate                         : 1 469 Kbps
Writing application                      : Lavf51.12.1

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : xvid
Codec ID                                 : xvid
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Bit rate                                 : 1 200 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 5:4
Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
Standard                                 : PAL
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.116
Stream size                              : 699 MiB (82%)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Mode                                     : Joint stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 149 MiB (17%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 24 ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.97

[denden1231]

Re MediaInfo if you set the view to Text you will get more meaningful information.

Like this as an example

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 856 MiB
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Overall bit rate                         : 1 469 Kbps
Writing application                      : Lavf51.12.1

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : xvid
Codec ID                                 : xvid
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Bit rate                                 : 1 200 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 5:4
Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
Standard                                 : PAL
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.116
Stream size                              : 699 MiB (82%)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Mode                                     : Joint stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 1h 21mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 149 MiB (17%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 24 ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.97

Thanks for your answer. netmask56, the previous info is what I got by choosing the view of Text.