Zapaan
16 May 2003, 06:00 AM
This may be a completely obvious type of newbie question, but here goes.
I downloaded a divx avi and as soon as I fire it up, it immediately freezes. I can hear audio, and Virtualdub tells me there's frame data.
I suspect that there's something corrupt in the header info, but rebuilding the header and index doesn't change anything, so I'm guessing that it's something else. Of interest is that whenever I open one of these files that do this in VirtualDub, there's no keyframes (which is why I thought the header info might be corrupt). Obviously this shouldn't be the case, and no, I'm not just missing the codecs. The file is encoded with divx, and I have the latest divx codecs (all other divx avis work fine).
So my question is, what could I use to rebuild this file? I've tried re-encoding it with VirtualDub, but since there are no keyframes, it simply dumps out another dead file. Any suggestions on what I could use to recover or rebuild the keyframes?
Thanks for any help.
- Z
I downloaded a divx avi and as soon as I fire it up, it immediately freezes. I can hear audio, and Virtualdub tells me there's frame data.
I suspect that there's something corrupt in the header info, but rebuilding the header and index doesn't change anything, so I'm guessing that it's something else. Of interest is that whenever I open one of these files that do this in VirtualDub, there's no keyframes (which is why I thought the header info might be corrupt). Obviously this shouldn't be the case, and no, I'm not just missing the codecs. The file is encoded with divx, and I have the latest divx codecs (all other divx avis work fine).
So my question is, what could I use to rebuild this file? I've tried re-encoding it with VirtualDub, but since there are no keyframes, it simply dumps out another dead file. Any suggestions on what I could use to recover or rebuild the keyframes?
Thanks for any help.
- Z