You can also rebuild an AVI index with mencoder:

mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy <infile> -o <outfile>

Will make a 'new' AVI file with the data from the original with the
indexes fixed. This will also help with badly interleaved audio in
files.

Aubin

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:34:37AM +1300, Dave Smylie wrote:
> it sounds like an incomplete file - from what I gather divx  keep the
> index  at the end of the file. if the file is not complete, the index
> will not be there. Windows Media Player refuses to play these files
> (though you can fix them using virtualdub), but mplayer will happily
> play them, but w/out the index you will be unable to see in the file (ff
> or rew).
> 
> If it's something you downloaded, try downloading it again, otherwise
> use virtualdub to fix it. (I'm sure there must be something in linux
> that fix these, but I've never come across it).
> 
> Dave Smylie
> 
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:29, skeeterskip wrote:
> > I have this one video file that I could play in Windows just fine and skip
> > around also. I transferred via Samba to linux machine and it plays in linux
> > but I can't FFW or Rew. It isn't just in Freevo that it does this but other
> > programs in Linux also.
> > 
> > And, if I try to watch the video via my Samba drive in Windows, I get popup
> > in Windows Media Player that says ClassFactory cannot supply requested
> > class. Yet, I can play all my other videos in Windows using my linux samba
> > mapped drive.
> > 
> > It is a divx movie just like the others, so I can't figure it out. Hmmm..
> > 
> > 
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