Repair broken AVI files.... (DivFix++)

[TheBossMan]

DivFix++
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-repair-broken-avi-files-that-wont-play-windows-only/

I just got a movie that is 1.3GB and supposed to be 2hours long from file properties, but it only plays for 4 minutes and media player just says its 4minutes long.
I found this nice little application that actually scans for errors and fix them. It's only about 700kb big and it makes a copy of the video which is repaired instead of having to recode the whole movie so it only takes a few minutes instead of 1 - 2 hours.

 

[Park@82]

Thanks, will check it out.
Another program that worked for me was AVI Fixed: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avifix.html

This software can rebuild the index part of the movie file, which is at the end of the file,and fix the file's play time error. It can help you to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies.

 

[BeoTeK]

Why not just use VLC?

I'm sure that has a repair feature as well.

 

[TheBossMan]

LOL will try VLC.. I thought VLC was only a player software, will try it sometime. But this helped me so will keep this as well

 

[Park@82]

yeah vlc repairs it before playing but doesn't save it, think you have to recode/convert&save it or something...
I had better luck with avi fixed.

BTW can anyone recommend a good tool to sync audio that is out of sync?

 

[mercurial]

yeah vlc repairs it before playing but doesn't save it, think you have to recode/convert&save it or something...
I had better luck with avi fixed.

BTW can anyone recommend a good tool to sync audio that is out of sync?

VirtualDub does that, I think. VLC can also sort that out but only while you are watching the movie, so it's a temp fix, whereas VirtualDub is a permanent fix.