AVI Playing Problem

[tryst1]

I am experiencing some problem while playing a avi file in vlc player.As i drag the seek bar the video freezes after a certain duration.I extracted the video from a few rar files.Please advice.

Thanks

[Bjs]

Use gspot to determine internal information .

As these where created via rar archival set ... the problem come's down to bad parting method .
It dosent alway's happen ... but it's a bad method to use in the first place .

Make sure the tool used to unrar the set is using the up to date unrar.dll from winrar ... or problem's can appear .

Better practice is to split the avi via the use of vdub , into multiple segment's and share it this way ... using any form of compression is almost useless , and can infact cause problem's later .

The basic problem is to do with seek control , which has been damaged / corrupted via the method of archiving used .

[tryst1]

Thanks for the advice.

The file was a result of 15 rar files which had a password and i am using winrar and in the testing mode all the files are reported to be ok.But when i unrar it says wrong password.Please advice.

Thanks again

[steveryan]

If it's the wrong password can you not ask the person you received the files from for the correct password?

[Bjs]

Thats where the problem lies .

If the password is not available , I can only point you to use a password cracking type tool ...

There's a few of these program's around the net , but they will take time , unless you know some of the variable's used in the password .

The last one I used cost $30 , brilliant , but while I had some of the variable's and exact length , it took multiple pass's and 3 hour's to pull the content out ... that'll teach me not to write the password down correctly ... never write anything important on paper ... when you own a 4 legged shredder ... my dog .

There used to be one or more free one's , but I dont think they have been updated since 1992 ... and if changes in unrar.dll have been made since then ... they'll fail .

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Funny thing is I used to do that crap all the time before ... I might have a sticky at that with some of the tool's I use .