VirtualDub's Error 100 - how to get round :)

[Uncle Step]

Many people are faced with the following trouble - encoding a movie to MPEG-4
with VirtualDub through DivX breaks randomly with the error message:
Error decompressing video frame XXXXX ... (error code -100).
It is curious, that one can successfully continue the encoding exactly
from the video frame-"offender". Then encoding goes on until the next
"error" occures or the movie ends. After some attempts all the movie
will be encoded into a number of segments, which VirtualDub can append
to the first of them one after another.

In view of this odd behaviour of VirtulDub I suppose that the way out
is to create a script, which can do all mentioned operations automatically:
1) "error 100" message window closing;
2) resumption of encoding (to a sequent AVI segment) from a fault video frame;
3) merging all AVI segments;
4) creating target AVI (Direct stream copy).

Can somebody fake out the damned VirtualDub by such a script?
I'll be grateful for a kind of script emailed me ;)

[MikeS]

I didn't know other people had this problem :) Mine always gets stuck on frame 9995.

[Swede]

This sounds strange... What source are you using? And which versions of the different programs?

[MikeS]

1.4.7, installed with Gordion's Knot. The source is a uncompressed YUYV file from TV in 640x480. It locks up when I'm trying to resize it to 320x240 and compress with the divx low motion codec (400 bitrate). If I do direct stream copy for the audio though it works. EDIT: it does this with multiple files.

[binky the stunt cat]

I actually find this error message handy. Because then i get the keyframes on either side of the "error" frame, enter it into AVIDeFreezer and generate a non errored version.
Useful if you just want to fix the frame before burning the file to CD, but dont want to waste the time recoding it.

[Uncle Step]

To binky the stunt cat
You are lucky you have bad frames in fact :)
It looks like that VirtualDub is in great need for the error frames so it finds them anyway ;)