Video garbled when seeking

[willow]

I have a video encoded in DivX 5.0 (DX50), which gets garbled when I seek to a random position, and only corrects itself when a keyframe is reached. If I let it play from start to finish there's no problem, only during seeking.

I tried rekeying it in VirtualDub, but that didn't seem to work. I searched the forum, but no relevant results turned up.

I've run out of ideas. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[sfheath]

do you run ffdshow?

[willow]

Thanks very much for replying.

No, I don't run ffdshow. I have DivX 5.11 pro & XviD installed

[sfheath]

I'm afraid I'm a bit of a 'one hit wonder' when it comes to DivX/XviD but fddshow seems to be most folks answer! :-)

[willow]

I had tried earlier versions of ffdshow a while ago and found it to be incredibly buggy.

But anyway, since you're recommending it so much, I'll try with the latest version and report back.

Thanks

[willow]

Okay, just tried with ffdshow (clean install after removing all other codecs). Still no dice. Problem persists. :(

BTW the link to ffdshow mirror in the sticky was giving me an error. (503 : Service temporarily unavailable) and the Sourceforge download page didn't have a version later than "2003-05-23". I downloaded it from here (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/ffdshow.cfm).

[willow]

Just wanted to report that the problem has been solved, whatever it was.

I just ran the AVI through the excellent program "AviPreviewC" available at http://www.funkster.org/ and it fixed whatever the problem was.

Thanks for all the help, especially sfheath.

[sfheath]

Pleasure and thanks for the feedback :-)