Hello. I got this AVI file around 700 MB When I open it(in WMPlayer) it plays normally. until about 42 seconds in ,the playback just freezes. No audio or video. However the file is still playing, i can see the progress bar continue to move and the time of the video continues to go up. IF i wait, it eventually starts to play again, but the problem is i missed the 2 or 3 mins that it "skipped" through. So the movie plays fine for like 5 mins and again it does the same crap. It seems like certain parts of the video are "truncated" ? If i move the WMV "Seek" bar to the times i mentioned,(like 42 seconds in) it doesn't play. I basically have keep using the seek bar until i find a part of the video that plays. OR i can just wait thru the parts that don't play until the video and audio return. I used gspot and it says the AVI file is perfectly ok. if u dont believe me here is a pic i made (its quite large tho) http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7097/gspot8cl.jpg ALSO if i play it in GSPOT "test" player, it will play the file up until the 42 seconds then the video will freeze tfollwed by the audio . About 2 seconds later the audio beings and a few seconds later the video comes back, the problem here is the same, it skips part of the movie so i miss out. and sometimes these black squares appear on the video for a bit then they go away(the square and funny looking distortions appear in WMplayer too)usually right before or after it skips. The same thing happens later in the movie. thanks for reading this.
Definatly sounds like bad/corrupt frames. GSpot won't tell you if a file is corrupt or not, well unless the header is corrupt in which case it will tell you that it isn't an avi. Also if the file is incomplete, it may fail to render. Corrupt in the middle though; it won't tell you. Try scanning with VirtualDub(Mod).
I played the AVI with VirtualDubMod_1_5_10_2_All_inclusive.zip and right at the parts when i said it screws up I get this error. --------------------------- VirtualDub Error --------------------------- Error decompressing video frame 1319: An unknown error occurred (may be corrupt data). (error code -100) --------------------------- OK --------------------------- I scanned the video with VIdeo >scan video stream for errors and i got --------------------------- Bad Frames --------------------------- The following frames could not be decoded: 1319-2786 14629-17919 44744-46349 53656-54984 59326-60417 64032-66185 80358-81641 90526-92351 94084-95651 --------------------------- OK --------------------------- Is this fixable? I mean i got 2 other version of the same video with different hashes and they still mess up just like this one.
Well, you could remove the bad chunks so that it plays. You downloaded 3 versions? Assuming that they are all corrupt versions of the same file and they all contain different sections of bad data, I guess you could cut them up and join back together into a complete file.
