[Paul Randall]

I have worked out a work around – not perfect but it only just works. What I did was use VSO Media Player1 as it was the only program I found that actually played the video. Even VLC did not even attempt the play the video. I then just re-encoded by playing it on my laptop then capturing it via my Decklink card using a HDMI to HD-SDI converter. I had no control of the playback – could not fast forward or rewind only play. I did end up capturing just over 5 hours of video so at least I have something. The video is a bit jerky in places and few areas where the video goes slow but that is better than nothing – I do have a separate audio recording so I just need to do a lot of re-syncing.

Thank you Russ for your help and offering plenty of suggestions.

regards

Paul

[Paul Randall]

Tried DivFix++ but got the following error:

Striping index at file: Rage P2.avi
Error: File cannot truncate at 999931730
Error occurred at striping index

VLC did export out the 44 minutes as a MP4 but as big chunks of video was missing it is not much good. The 44 minutes is a bit like a highlights video from the 5 1/2 hours – with the audio going in an out of sync.

[Paul Randall]

OK DivFix++ gave a lot of errors like:

Processing file : Rage P2.avi
Four CC is : MJPG
Warning: Frame size is too big! Dropped
Error detected at byte: 9870
Skipped 1228240 bytes.
Warning: Frame size is too big! Dropped
Error detected at byte: 1238118
Skipped 1228170 bytes.
…

So did not work.

I did try Digital Video Repair V2.2.4 from https://www.risingreasearch.com

It did actually go right through but at the end WMP could not play it but VLC sort of did after “Fixing AVI index file” but only played about 40 min but should have been about 5 hours long. So not sure what to do now as Adobe Premiere still cannot use the “fixed” file anyway.

[Paul Randall]

Avidemux says “Attempt to open video.avi failed!”

DaVinci Resolve lite 11.1.1 – I have not used this software before. I tried to add some different MP4 and AVI video files to the media bin but it would not take them. I am not sure if I am doing this correctly – any suggestions?

[Paul Randall]

Have you got any ideas on where I can find such a program?

[Paul Randall]

I did try VirtualDubMod but it did not work. I did a “Create sparse AVI” file then did a “Expand sparse AVI” file but the Expand sparse AVI was about 15GB smaller but still did not play. I am not sure if what I did was correct so any advise on using the program is appreciated

FYI when I try and play the file from Media Express the display says “Media Offline”