Cannot convert AVI files

[GJF]

I have spent several days D/L a TV episode in AVI format with my dial up connection. The D/L would not complete at 97.7%. It plays OK with Windows media player and Nero showtime but I want to use convertxtodvd or Nero7 to convert it to DVD so that I can watch it on my TV but Nerovision will not open it and convertxtodvd will not load it. Any suggestions appreciated

[Krispy Kritter]

Many players will play incomplete/corrupt files, but you won't have much luck performing a conversion. All of the data is needed.

[JonnyCabs]

Try DivFix or DivFix++

These repair the headers of corrupted or incomplete AVI files and create "working" copies of the files

These can then be loaded into ConvertX for encoding into DVD

[GJF]

I tried loading the file into Divfix but when I clicked repair it would not recognise it as a AVI file
What is the difference between Divfix and Divfix+

[Krispy Kritter]

DivFix++ is a rewritten version of the same program.

However, I suspect you will have the same issue with any of the tools for fixing files because you are missing data. You have nothing to lose by trying.

FYI: there are others listed in the tools secton.

[Ai Haibara]

Yeah; it sounds like part or all of the header (a necessary part of the AVI) is missing. You won't be able to do much with the video unless that missing data is there.

[GJF]

As can play it on my PC I am going to try using the TV out and hooking that up to my TV or my DVD recorder and see if I can record it onto a disk.

[GJF]

Couldn't manage any of the above post. Do you think a stand alone Divx player would play it. As I said above Windows media player plays it OK. I want to try and get it onto a disk my Panasonic recorder will play.

[vhelp]

Hi GJF,

AVI and Headers-- Although I don't claim to be an expert in this area..
When an avi is behaving strange, as in your case, sometimes, the blame is on
account of the avi having corrupt or missing pieces, either inside the header,
index, or chunks thereof. I'm only speculating on yours.

There are various ways to deal with these issues. But the only downfall is
the re-writing of a *new* AVI file. And if you have limited HDD space, then
it could be a problem if the file(s) are huge and you have many go process.

Depending on the seriousness of the damage on your avi, fixing it may or may
not work, completely. The area of damage/corruption has to (or, should be)
identified first, then determened if fix 'able or not. Its not 100%. But the provision
is there to attempt a fix, in any case. And fixing them would require either
re-indexing the chunks, and/or re-write or patch each of the Headers within
the RIFF structure by comparing to the mainaviheader, or other method.

Suggestion-- If Try DivFix or DivFix++ or virtualDub (reindexing) will not fix it, then
you might at least be able to re-write a *new* avi through vdub's Direct Stream Copy
method. Then, try runing them inside convertxtodvd, again on it.

-vhelp 4300

[GJF]

Thanks for the advice. I D/L the latest 32 bit version of Virtualdub however I couldn't get it to open the file.

[Baldrick]

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Voyager-Complete-Season/dp/B00062IDLA , problem solved.

[GJF]

Thank,s Baldrick but I already have all the episodes apart from this one.

[GJF]

Given up, thank's for help

[TBoneit]

I actually just to see if it would work ran a damaged AVI through
MPEG4Modifier, VLC complained that it was damaged and I couldn't add it to the program for inclusion with other files so....
I ran it through MPEG4Modifier, chose unpack and then saved it with a new filename. Problem solved

I mention this in case anybody else wants to try and see if it works for them too. I've got some other avis that have the same problem. I don't know what went wrong in their creation but rather than encode again I'll just do this now that I knwo it works as it is much faster than digging out DVDs with source files on them, re-encoding etc.

Cheers