The Border S01E07 HDTV XviD-2HD

does any's wmp crash when you try to play this episode? i know i can play it
in vlc but was wondering if anyone knew why it does that once in a while
without shows too. am i missing a codec?

yeah i have the same problem, it only seems to work in vlc

same problem here. runs on vlc, but crappy wmp tells me about missing codecs.
avicheck says:

file: x:\border_107.avi
total streams: 2
running time: 0:00:00
index chunk: no
interleaved: yes
max bytes per sec: 0
audio: 0 - mp3 (0x55)
average bitrate per sec: 133 kb/s
samples rate: 48000 hz
channels: 2
bits per sample: 0
variable bitrate: yes (64, 96, 128)
video: xvid
b-vop: yes
s(gmc)-vop: no
quarterpixel: no
frame size: 624 x 352
frames rate: 23.976
color depth: 12
total frames: 0

elapsed time 00:00

unfortunately, this tells me anything. the real bad thing is, i can't play this
file on my standalones, which i supposed until now to play everything. maybe i
have to recode it with virtualdub or super or... just wait for the opportunity
of a proper one 😉

this is not a codec problem.

g-spot reads:

corrupt avi header

well played sir, will try this out later 🙂

definitely a corrupt header problem, surely this deserves a nuke, in the
meantime opening it in vdm allows it to rebuild the header information and you
can save the new avi, hope this gets sorted though, as im sure there are plenty
of users without vdm or without the knowledge to use it.

edit

looks like the vdm fix leaves the audio out of sync, could be fixed by
decompressing the original audio and re compressing it in cbr from the .wav

first post here so don\'t shout at me if i do it wrong!
im a complete novice to all this avi stuff but ive had trouble before
with real player and wmp not playing avi\'s.

here\'s my solution:
download avs video convertor and simply convert your avi into another
avi. i didn\'t change any settings, and it converted the avi into xvid
(you can choose divx if you want but i don\'t know what the difference is,
feel free to help me with this) and it takes around 30-40 mins for a 350mb
file.
the only drawbacks are 1) the file size jumps to over 800mb and 2) the speech
sync is very slightly out but you can correct this with another downloaded
program virtualdub.

as i said before i don\'t understand about avi\'s and codecs etc, but if
you\'re
like me and are just happy if everything works ok this could be the fix for
you.

i think i got it by using freeware "super (c) v2007.build23 (july 4, 2007) by
erightsoft". you find this and higher versions via g**gle, yah** or other
search-engines
1) select ffmpeg
2) go to video and simply select "stream copy"
3) go to audio and simply select "stream copy"
4) right click into the open field near the bottom and select the corrupted
border.avi-file
5) click "open" or "select" or however it's called in your language (in german
it's "