"This AVI is broken. Seeking will not work correctly" Repair

[gibsongk55]

Hi DK,

I appreciate the reply but a little too late. Instead I dumped the file into Suoer 8 (which is free and great) and converted it. Then burned it with no problem.

Thanks again,

Gibs

[krishy]

The previous version played flawlessly my avis packed into rar files. The 2.0 sent me the same message. Is some medicine for it or should I downgrade?

Mac OSX Lion, VLC 2.0

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I think this is a RAR regression. There is a ticket on it.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This is fixed for 2.0.1

[jlhightower]

In the cases where you have received this error after downloading the file by torrent, try rechecking the file for errors in utorrent, vuze or whatever. Worked for me. That was after i tried avidemux, divx++ and virtualdub. All far more complicated than I found the solution was. Hope that helps.

[RogerG]

Before I ran the "regsvr32 shmedia.dll" command my Windose XP slept for a few minutes after opening a AVI file with VLC 2.0.4 Twoflower.

Now I use VLC 2.0.4 Twoflower and I get the "This AVI is broken. Seeking will not work correctly" message on most AVI files.


Is there a solution ?

Thanks

Roger

[kenj1]

An extremely fast method to fix this problem is via ffmpeg (http://www.ffmpeg.org/).

For example, to fix a bad avi file "bad.avi" to "good.avi", you'd do the following:

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ffmpeg -i "bad.avi" -c:v copy -c:a copy "good.avi"

The 2 arguments tell ffmpeg to directly copy the video and audio portions of the original file.

It takes roughly 10 seconds on my iMac to fix a 1GB AVI file.

Ken