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The AVI Index panel that comes up every time I play my Canon SD870IS videos - AVI Index is broken, do I want to fix it. Is there a place it should be putting the fixed index so that next time it doesn't have to ask? How would I make that happen?

Is that related to the issue that once a file has finished playing, the window closes, so clicking the play button means that message appears again?

I'm sure with all the things this product does, this might seem like not much of an issue, but all I want to do it play my video, so it's a big issue when it always complains about playing it.

Win XP, Service Pack 2 (or 3 is asking to be installed - I assume that wouldn't make a difference?).

I don't understand the technical issues - just a clueless user, and I'm also trying not to hijack a thread, so this question is similar to part of another thread, but I think I had to ask it here as a separate query.

Thanks for the reply, VLS_help. I did say I'm in the clueless category of user. The DivFix++ has language like:

Windows users can download ming32 compiled Win32 and ming64 compiled Win64 binaries.For compiling DivFix++ from source you need to wxWidgets 2.8.0 library or newer

and Virtualdub looks scarier than that. I'm just a user who wants to play a video. I shouldn't need to understand any of those words. And I don't.

VideoLAN fixes the problem every time it plays the video. How about just saving whatever it takes to fix it and read that next time? You could ask "do you want to save the fix?" and if I say yes, then store whatever you just used, and when the program plays a video with a problem, look to see if that file is there, and if it is, use it.

And keep the file open when it finishes playing, so I can play it again and the file with the fix will still be there, if it's not something you can store permanently.

Never mind - I backed up from where the link took me and found the bit about the Demuxers and having it do the repair automatically without asking. I've changed the setting now, and that works well enough. Thanks for the help.