AVI Roxio retrieve CD error

[pabloj240]

I have a 3 gig video that i burnt onto 4 CD's last year. I used Roxie easy cd creator to split the video among the 4 cd's, and am trying to load it back onto my computer useing Roxio retrieve..... the problem is that CD 2 is screwed up. I used isobuster to download each of the CD's into seprate files. the only file i can open is the first one - and it plays on WMP for the first 5 minutes .... then stops. i cant open any of the other files. I cant join the files either.... Roxio could but it gets jammed up and gives an error on the 2nd CD every time.

anyone know of any programs that could read the 2nd-4th files and convert them to working avi files - then i could join them useing premier or something.

ive tried a bunch of these programs...
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-repair-fix
none of them work .... they dont recognize files 2~4 as valid .avi files

[redwudz]

You might try VirtualDub Mod. Click 'Open video file', then on the next page, check 'Ask for extended options after this dialog' on the bottom left of the page. On the next page, click 'Re-dirive keyframe flags', then 'OK'.

This will rebuild the index and may help. But if there are breaks in the video stream, it's really difficult to get a program to load the whole file. I find most of those repair programs useless.

You can also 'Scan video stream for errors' with VDM, but if you can't load it all, that won't help much.

I have ran into that problem a few times and have yet to find a good solution. I usually end up deleting the file.

[pabloj240]

when i try to open it, it says "can not detect the type of file" i renamed the file to .avi but that did nothing

[redwudz]

Do you have 'Hide extensions for known file types' unchecked in 'Folder Options'? Otherwise you may not be seeing the real extension.

But it sounds like a badly corrupted file. Or it's in some odd format. What does Gspot 2.70 say about it?

Sorry, no other ideas. Another member may have more advanced methods you might try.

[Midzuki]

Just an advice: next time you want to span a file across several disks,
use the command-line tool split.exe (yes, it has already been ported to Win32).
The original file(s) will be restored in this way:

copy /b part01+part02+...+partNN filename.extension

HTH.

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