http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/avi-fixer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/avi-fixer/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:14:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9439 It happens from time to time that avi video files are corrupted. This is usually noticed during playback. Some problems that can occur are freezing or distorted images which is usually caused by bad frames. Another problem that can occur is that it is not possible to play the movie from any position because of a bad index file. This could have happened during the creation of the video which usually means that the problem cannot be fixed by downloading the file anew.

DivFix++ is a portable Open Source avi fixer for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. It comes with a graphical user interface and a command line version. The graphical user interface is probably the most comfortable. Videos can be dragged and dropped into the interface or added by using the file browser. A click on the check errors button will scan the video files in the queue and display information if errors have been encountered.

A few settings are necessary before videos can be fixed. The first is to set a path for the fixed video files. A few additional settings are optional. Bad parts are cut out by default which could result in skips during playback. Probably still the better solution than a video that is stopping and not continuing afterwards. Errors can be written to a log file for further analysis but they will also be displayed in the log window.

A click on Fix will try to fix the video files in the list. Other possibilities are to strip or rebuild the index of selected video files.

Tags: avi fixer, avi software, divx fixer, divx-repair, Open Source, portable software, repair avi, windows software

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/avi-fixer/feed/ 11 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/04/fix-your-divx-movies/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/04/fix-your-divx-movies/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:33:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/04/fix-your-divx-movies/ I guess one of the following situations has happened to everyone who is viewing Divx movies on his computer. If you have experienced a frozen image with the sound still playing normally or pixels that distort the image then Divx Repair is the program that you could use to fix the errors automatically.

Divx Repair is a tool that is very simple to use. Just unzip it to your hard drive and run it from the location that you have unzipped it to. Divx Repair does not need to be installed and does not alter your system files or registry. Double-click Divx Repair to start the program. You can add files with the button Add Files (who would have guessed that, hehe).

The button Repair files starts the automatic repair process which tries to fix bad frames automatically. Only the bad frames will be deleted not the keyframes which means that you should be able to play the movie without errors from now on.

A error report at the end of the repair displays the amount of bad intervals that have been found. If a fix was necessary a new version of the movie will be saved in the same directory as the original movie file.

Tags: artefacts, avi, bad, distort, divx, divx-repair, frames, frozen-image, image, no-picture-but-sound, repair, stutter

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