CONVERT / SAVE / REPAIR AVI FILE

[ringoes_man]

A file I downloaded results in "This AVI is broken. Seeking will not work correctly. Do you want to try to fix it?"
I click "repair it", and everything works fine, it plays fine.

I wanted to save 'the repair' so that I wouldn't get the message everytime I played back the file; but I couldn't find any SAVE/FILE command. Instead I found CONVERT/SAVE. But when I did that (specifying the same and then mp4 output) the resulting file was one percent the size of the original and of very poor quality.

What's going on? How do I do want I want to do (save the repair, but not lose quality)?

Thanks.

ringoes_man

[Lotesdelere]

Your best bet is to use AviDemux to remux your video to AVI using the copy streams mode. Both video and audio streams will be copied into a new compliant AVI container so no quality will be lost.

[ringoes_man]

I'll give that a try.

[nodje]

I've got the same problem, I can't believe there not way to save what VLC just recovered so nicely!

It's got to save what it just fixed somewhere, hasn't it? I can't see any reason why one couldn't have access to that fixe bit of data... that's really above me.

I've tried AviDemux, it won't even open the file VLC can repair

[nodje]

PS: divfixpp.sourceforge.net did the job in about a minute for 700Mb avi file.
Amazing.

but i still wish I'd know how to persist VLC fix on file.

-nodje

[VLC_help]

http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... _action.3F