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.

[willow]

Solved!!

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