Capturing video that is being played back

[silverwolf0]

Okay I am not looking for any of those video stream capturing utilities all over the net as I am only looking to fix some screwed up rmvb files. I have several rmvbs that have some weird issue where no rm fix or repair tool out there (I've tried like 5 of them) will fix. I've even tried manually using the rmeditor in the command line and cutting chunks of the files out and trying to just cut out the bad part of the file and salvaging the rest.

The problem is that even though I can play the video from lets say 10:00 to 30:00, 20 minutes of the middle, in media player classic, when it hits the 10:00 mark it jumps over to the 30:00 mark, skipping 20 minutes of it. This isn't too big of an issue within media player classic as I can just click the scroll bar back to say 10:01 and it will start playing the 20 minutes that it suddenly just skipped. However, if I try to encode that file into an mpg, it will screw up. If I try to use rmeditor to cut pieces of it out, it will force me to completely cut out (unusable) from 10:00 to 30:00 even though most if not all of it is intact and I can play it relatively well on media player classic. Any small cut inside this time frame will result in an error.

Basically I am trying to fix the rmvb file so that I can encode it to mpg but no encoder will encode it and no rmvb fixer will fix it. My last resort is something along the lines of playing the file back and recording the output.

The question is, which program will do this for me and do it well? Native rmvb support would be nice but I think avisynth could possibly circumvent a lack of rmvb support?

[Baldrick]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=110#110 and turn of overlay/hardware acceleration when you capture or you wont get it. But I can't say what tool is best for video though.

Or you could output to a dvd recorder or a capture card.

[Scorpion King]

Playing it back and recording the output might work, I don't know. I haven't had much luck trying that myself.

If you want to try and fix it this might help. I stumbled on it while searching out your problem. You might want to give it a read. http://www.jakeludington.com/dv_hacks/20051210_how_to_convert_rmvb.html

That method uses VirtualDubMod and AviSynth. Might give you another option to repair it.???

Good luck.

[silverwolf0]

Edit: Wait I was too fast in dismissing scorpion king's suggestion. Virtualdub + avisynth does work to fix it. All those corrupted areas are gray screens now that I can cut out. The first time I did it, I didn't use the script that was in the link and just used directshowsource(), which probably may have caused crashes by itself. Thanks for getting this solved Scorpion King!

I will try some of the screen capture apps. Thanks for the list. As far as avisynth + virtualdub, I've tried that before and sadly it will not work and freezes or crashes whenever it gets to that nice sweet spot, or really long sweet spot.