How to De-freeze?

[MePrivat]

Hi there!

Especially from downloaded DivX files I have frozen frames where most of them can be "fixed" with AVI-Defreezer. But there are some frames that cannot be fixed in this way. It ends up sometimes with completely broken files, sometimes splitted audio and video and scrapped.
What can I do besides deleting these frames?

[manono]

Hi-One choice might be to go to the Codecs section of Doom9's Download page and get DivX Anti-Freeze 0.4 (for DivX 3.11 only). It will allow you to continue to play through the freezes. Using AVI DeFreezer, you are careful to "fix" them from keyframe to keyframe, right, and not just the frozen frames?

[MePrivat]

Yes, I fixed with AVI-Defreezer from key-frame to key-frame. I even seperated the problem section to an own file and tried to fix it, but no success.
DivX-Antifreeze works but I do not like to share vids with broken frames.

[manono]

Hi Again. Then you already know all of the choices-De Freeze, Anti Freeze, and Cut Out Da Freeze. A fourth choice might be to stop downloading someone else's crummy rips, and do it yourself. Sorry-not much help.

[CdinT]

Avi Defreezer can't deal with VBR & AC3.
That's why it's not working everytime.
And if you have to much errors it's unusable again.

In the case your sound is VBR, repair the movie with avi defreezer then you'll end up with a good movie but no sound. With VDub you select export to wav and you end with a .wav file which is actualy a .mp3 so just rename it. Then mux the two and you have a good movie.

[MePrivat]

Sorry CdinT,

this did not work. AVI-Deefrezer crashes about 1 sec after starting the defreeze. I did it also with cutted out problem part -> Same problem. To me it looks like that AVI-Defreeze expects Audio.

By the way it is no VBR but CBR.

[akan314]

speaking (as always) from a non-programmer standpoint, how difficult would it be, based on current knowledge of divx3 decoding, to write a program that, given the frame number of where a freeze frame starts, could actually look through the data in the frame and find the trouble spot(s)? granted, larger errors would be difficult to fix, but if it was a matter of a couple wrong bits, would it actually be possible to fix something like this?

[MePrivat]

Sorry akan314, I am also a non programmer. So I cannot estimate how much effort it would need.
But I would appreciate it if somebody could do it.

[AM Tiainen]

Well, in DivX 3 that is normal problem. So, use DivX 4

[LotionBoy]

AVI-defreezer must get an AVI with an audio track or it crashes.

LotionBoy

[MePrivat]

Sorry, but I do not prefer DivX4. I did two of them and burned them on CD. When I try to watch them me CD player goes wheeee whoooo seeking back and forth. I can't stand that during watching a movie. This problem is not the case with DivX3.