17 GB HQX (AVI) video file freezing VirtualDub when seeking

[kingmustard123]

I captured a 1h 40m VHS tape using AmaRecTV and the Grass Valley HQX codec.

• VirtualDub-1.10.5-test7-AMD64 (October 2014) can't open the file as it just shows 'Reconstructing missing index block (aggressive mode)' and it would take a long, long time complete each time.
• VirtualDub_FilterMod_40087_5 (July 2017) opens the file instantly but if I skip past roughly the 30,000 frame/20-minute mark, the program freezes and never re-responds.
• AVI Splitter 2.21 (2006) shows 'Unsupported type of chunk index: 0'
• Avidemix 2.6.21 (May 2017) freezes when I try to open the file

Any ideas?

Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.4 GHz
16 GB DDR4-3000
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

[poisondeathray]

Sounds like it's damaged

What about a media player, like MPCHC , can you play or seek past the ~20min mark ? Also try VLC, which uses a different decoder

[kingmustard123]

Sounds like it's damaged

What about a media player, like MPCHC , can you play or seek past the ~20min mark ?

PotPlayer 1.7.3344 (August 2017) only allows me to play up to the 22:00 mark.

Can the video file be fixed?

Was it AmaRecTV at fault?

[poisondeathray]

Sounds like it's damaged

What about a media player, like MPCHC , can you play or seek past the ~20min mark ?

PotPlayer 1.7.3344 (August 2017) only allows me to play up to the 22:00 mark.

Can the video file be fixed?

Was it AmaRecTV at fault?

potplayer, mpchc will be using the official system installed codec. Also try VLC which uses a different decoder

Hard to say what caused it or if amarectv is at "fault" from that information alone. Maybe you had a power surge or "brown out" , just a guess

Can you describe the physical setup ?

You can try recovery software, or you can try recapturing, or some other method of recording

[kingmustard123]

Was a faulty file transfer (faulty USB port).

[raffriff42]

>can't open the file as it just shows 'Reconstructing missing index block (aggressive mode)' and it would take a long, long time complete each time.
If indexing completes successfully, dub to a new file using direct stream copy mode.