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Boulder
13th September 2003, 20:46
The question's in the title, gentlemen..er..gentlepersons.

I was capturing a TV series today with VirtualVCR. Suddenly, the program crashed and I had to restart the capture, losing about 30 seconds of the show. I tried to open the first clip after the show had ended and the capturing finished but I couldn't get it to work. VDubMod doesn't want to open it directly or via AviSynth.

Is there anything I could try to get the clip working? I'm quite sure it's just some header or similar that is missing.
ppera2
14th September 2003, 13:45
Try to 'steal' header from one valid capturing with same parameters.

With some hex editor...
Boulder
16th September 2003, 11:23
Tried that, and it proved to be too complicated. The header part seems to be quite big and I was very unsure where it began and where it ended:mad: I tried DivFix as well but it wouldn't recognise the file as AVI at all, just as VDubMod.

I ended up deleting the file, fortunately it was only five minutes of the complete episode.