How to repair a video that freezes midway while playing?

[ericdunn]

Hello,

I downloaded a video from the web. It freezes midway while playing. After conversion to avi it stills freezes, even though no error was given during conversion. What is wrong? How do I fix it?

Here is some info on the video.

Thank you in advance for your help!



General
Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\User1\My Documents\1\Video.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 228 MiB
Duration : 15mn 47s
Overall bit rate : 2 015 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf54.63.104

Video
ID : 0
Format : xvid
Codec ID : xvid
Duration : 15mn 47s
Bit rate : 1 683 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.073
Stream size : 190 MiB (84%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 15mn 45s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 36.1 MiB (16%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Writing library : LAME?@€

[johns0]

Sounds like a bad avi,no way the fix it due to the way it was first encoded.

[Selur]

I would try divfix (http://www.divfix.org/)

[ericdunn]

I would try divfix (http://www.divfix.org/)

Thanks for the tip, Selur. I tried divfix++ and doesn't seem to do anything.

[Selur]

Can you scroll through the whole video using Virtual Dub?

[ericdunn]

Can you scroll through the whole video using Virtual Dub?

No, it stops at the point where the original video freezes.

[Selur]

you could try if ffmpeg or vlc can play the whole thing, if not the file is probably to broken,..