Strange problem in captured avi file

[DEADITE]

i have captured from vhs using virtualdub
i used the huffuv codec,352*288 resolution
the problem is that the captured avi works fine if i play it from the begining to the end but if i go to some other point of the movie then media player crashes and pops up a message saying that the file format is invalid
if i play the same avi with radlight player and move the slide the movie doesnt crash but the sound begins playing from the start!!
i dont have any problem with the other captured movies just with that
unfortunately i didnt notice the problem earlier and i erased the tape so i cant capture it again
is any way to fix this problem?i think there must be something with the keyframes but i dont what exactly and how to fix it

please any idea?

thanx in advance

[DEADITE]

well i converted the <bad> file into divx avi and it works perfectly!!
now that how did it happen?i think that maybe it has to do with the file size of the huuffuv compressed avi which was 7gb whereas the size of the divx avi is 250mb-i cant think of something else-if so why should such a problem occur?everything else works fine

btw my os is windows xp with ntfs file system

[jp1234]

Don't worry about that. Huffyuv is an excellent codec for compression. It is not optimized to be a realtime decompressor (as yet).

I have never experienced a huffyuv avi playing smoothly on my system PIII/500MHz/384MB SDRAM (and I'm sure it is the same for most of the systems out there).

I hope that huffyuv is not the final compression you are using - because that is not what it was designed for. It was designed to be a codec that compresses lossless very fast - as an intermediate file before you convert to DivX or SVCD or VCD. With the right settings, you should see good results depending on how clean the source is.

I should, however, mention that I've never experienced windows media player crashing with huffyuv... although I hardly ever use seeking in this file in media player (I do all my seeking in Virtualdub - no problems there).