Help correcting a XviD movie, please.

[StellaIndigo]

Hi

Can anyone help with a damaged XviD movie? The movie is 1hr 27mins long. Size: 680x272. At around the 6min mark the movie stops on a corrupted frame(s) but audio carries on running. If I skip forward past the corrupted frame(s) everything works OK except the audio is out of sync by 250-500ms.

I want to (a) correct the corrupted selection and (b) ensure the next 1hr 21 minutes are sync'd.

I've been trying to correct and/or re-encode into a different format using tools like EoVideo,TMPGEnc and VirtualDub but without any success.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Stella

[Knut_Norw]

If the movie is TTT there is a fix out for the audio.

As to the bad frame after 7min58sec. there is no good solution. There is however a XVID codec that continues on the film after displaying the bad frame, so I would try DL some other XVID codecs and playing it again.

If the question is how to use the source in TMPGEnc, the only solution will be cutting the MPG file just before the bad frame and starting a new one just after. If you burn both on one CD and set the pause to 0 secs it will not be noticed while playing the film.

[narked]

Open your avi in virtualdub. Save out wave as normal. Load wave into virtualdub. Set direct stream copy on audio and video.Now:
Go to edit - beginning
go to edit - set selection start
Now move pointer to beginning of corrupt data - press play.
Stop playing when corrupt data found (picture glitchy)
press fame back until point of good data
Go to edit - set selection end
Go to file - save as avi and save selection with new filename e.g. blah1.1.avi
Now press keyframe forward until you find the next working keyframe after corrupt data
go to audio - interleaving and put in audio skew correction figure (try steps of 250ms)
Press play to check sound syncing
when syncing is correct go to edit - end
go to edit set selection end
save this section filename blah1.2.avi
Close virtualdub and reopen it
open file blah1.1.avi
go to edit - end
go to file append avi segment and open file blah 1.2.avi
Now save this completed file blahFINAL.avi
Open blahFINAL.avi with TMPGenc and encode

[legionpc]

If the movie is TTT there is a fix out for the audio.

As to the bad frame after 7min58sec. there is no good solution..

Incorrect. I have a fix for the bad frames. Its a small avi file which is the frames that are bad in the original file. Also has some programs, and a .bat file which gets the programs to apply the fix automatically for you. Works like a charm.

I'd post it here, but I've been told off for posting them before