On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > Once in a while, my video computer die from a kernel panic. If this > happens while I'm recording something (which it normally does), I'm > left with an avi file with no usable values in the header. > > Is there any good way to fix such a file? > ... > I could most likely fix it manually, but that's a chore...
Manually fixing it was the only way I ever found to correct this problem when it happened to me. If I remember right, if I copied the first 2k from a good avi (that also had the same recording settings) over top of the first 2k of the bad avi, that lav2wav/lav2yuv/lavplay would then work with the file. However, they are not totally happy with the "fix", they seem to read the whole entire file from disk first before doing anything at all with it. But at least it worked. I had one quicktime file go away once for the same reasons, I was never able to find a way to fix it, and I never again recorded to quicktime. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
