Bad byte

[biney59]

I have this AVI video and I know exactly at which byte it is corrupted at. I was wondering if there was a way to remove that byte (or segment), so even if I lose lose like 1 minute of video I can still see the rest.

The VideoReapir programs on the site only gave the output of the video before, but it did not continue after the bad byte.

[mats.hogberg]

VirtualDub?

/Mats

[ZippyP.]

Using Vdub and the "direct stream copy" setting you can cut between the key frames (locate with the gold key button, mark in, mark out, delete segment). Save avi will then quickly save the new file without re-compressing.

[biney59]

It was actually the one of the first thing I tried. But when I tried to load file in either VirtualDub/MOD/MP3-Freeze, it would do some kind of indexing then like the other programs, would load only the segment before the bad byte.

[jimmalenko]

Use an AVISynth script:

AVISource("c:\path\to\yourfile.avi")
Trim(0, lastgoodframe)++Trim(nextgoodframe, endframe)

Open this in vdub / vdubmod and it should neatly chop out the bad section. You will need to either re-encode or alternatively frameserve though as AVISynth will decode back to uncompresseed video.