repair video files (1 Viewer)

[mojako]

Can we repair crappy video files which wont open in most video players but open in VideoLAN, or video files which arent displayed properly in a few video players?
These files Im asking about cant be opened by video editing programs I know of, like Dr DivX or Windows Movie Maker (if they can be opened I wont have to ask here).

 

[redslert]

would be nice if we could find out what video format you are talking about

 

[mojako]

just say its DivX and MPEG
pls tell any formats that you know can be "fixed"

 

[redslert]

anything can be fixed
depends on the damaged done

different file formats required different programs.....i don't have time to write down all of them
so either be specific or....nothing

 

[mojako]

okay, its DivX....
Thanks before.

 

[redslert]

alright, i don't have much time so i just write something brief

DivX can have a number of problems, most of the time it is missing segments when you are downloading or the file originally is broken with missing stuff.
there are a number of things you can do

there are 2 programs which i recomend you try out in order to fix dive files that cannot be openned

one program which i swear by all the time is called 'Virtual Dub" be A. Lee (can't remember his whole name), one of the very fix free/shareware divx encoders
open the file using virtual dub, if you can't then the file is pretty much dead and nothing can be done about it

you can fix broken files by saving it again in divx using virtual dub, just select 'direct source copy' for both audio and video... and then save as .avi again

another program you can try to use which doesn't work as well is called
DivFix103
it pretty simple and once you open it just play around with the only 2 buttons you can't go wrong

these's probably a couple more programs but i can't remember them off the top of my head....nor do i have the time to go into them sorry

hope this helps....

 

[mojako]

thanks heaps.
I'll give it a try