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I may not have given VLC enough time when converting to .m4v. However the resulting file is only 37.9MB, down from the .avi file of 815.7MB and it played in QT for 25 seconds instead of 5 minutes and appeared to run fast.

When I dragged the corrupt movie to Version 2.1.0-git displayed a screen titled Broken or missing AVI Index. Clicking either Play as is or Build index then play played the movies fine. Movies that loaded before loaded with no such display and played fine. An attempt to convert a corrupted file gave ...

Downloaded version 2.0.3, which may not be the Build version you recommended. V 2.0.3 does not run the original file from the camera but does work quickly with the .mp4 version from Handbrake.

Suspect there is a special source for the latest build version.

Tom

Handbrake converted the reportedly corrupt Nikon D5000 .AVI file to .mp4 and the new .mp4 file opens and plays on both Quicktime and VLC. Non the wiser regarding the reason for the problem but now have a workable solution. Thanks ajmas

Now that we agree VLC cannot open the file, is there any information I can pass onto Nikon that they should do to make their AVI files more compatible.

I shot 4 movies on my Nikon D5000. Downloaded them to my computer as .AVI files. Two play fine in Quicktime and VLC 2.0.2. The other two fail in DivX, Quicktime and VLC, displaying messages indicating unknown formats. All the movies play with MPlayerX. One of the problem movies is shared from https:...