Subject: One solution for repost requests on .avi movies.
From: "Billy" <Billy269@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:16:52 GMT
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Check out www.video-fixer.com . Their cheap (free trial) fixer has saved all
my .avi files, missing or corrupted pieces don't crash any more, they are
simply skipped over to the next block.
This software supports the following formats: Divx Avi Asf Wmv Wma Rm Rmvb.
I've confirmed it works on .avi only.
Another product claims to fix .mpg and .mpeg formats, but fails to do so.
It's called All Media Fixer from www.realconvert.com and supposedly supports
more formats, just about all of them.
Generally .mpg and .mpeg formats don't fail completely due to missing or
corrupted blocks, the media keeps playing displaying the last viewable frame
until you drag it to the next block that is valid. On several .mpg videos
I've got that have excessive missing blocks and requires dragging repeadly
(which can be a pain), I've tried a video convert program to convert them to
.avi, the result is of course a corrupt .avi file, so I ran the file through
Video Fixer (mentioned at the top of this page) with no improvement, a
disappointment.
But I can live with .mpg's dragging bit, and now I can download .avi's with
no fear of loosing the entire movie if one block near the start is missing.
Of course I prefer PAR2 files, but this is one work around for .avi video's.
Prior to getting the above software I had some success by replacing a
corrupt or missing block of an .avi file with a renamed previous block (now
duplicated), worked on some but with a lot of corrupt blocks it gets old
very quickly making these patches.
Before all this stuff, I (PM you'll love this) use newsfeeds.com and was
asking another group for too many reposts (no PAR2 there either), now I can
live with everything but a missing .001 block. And if there is PAR2 files,
even a missing .001 block does not cause a problem (PAR2 will replace
missing blocks, lots of them, even .001 blocks).
Just thought I'd pass along some results and experiments.
Billy
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