Bad Frame!

[asscore]

Hi I have a question. I have a movie (divx 5.2.1) that has a single bad frame that causes every single encoder I have to crash out. I've tried converting to xvid, divx4 fast motion, uncomp'd RGB (all in vdub AND dubmod) mpeg2 in TMPGenc, mpeg2 in vegas (using CCE and the Mainconcept encoder) and I am just stuck.

When I run the check for errors feature in vdub/dubmod It all comes up clean! But If I go to frame 8575 it crashes vdub/dubmod no matter what.
also If throw a left marker at frame 8574 i cant go past the next frame to right marker and delete the bad frame I get a crash.....

so......

anyone have any clue what I should do? I really would like to salvage this footage as I have since lost my original copy due to a portable hard drive failure.

any suggestions?

also I've tried the program divfix, which apparently is crap. wrecked my movie totally. good thing I made a backup before the attempted repair.

I can post my error logs from vdub if anyone can decipher it enough to know what the problem is.

thanks

[neuron2]

Use Avisynth and apply this:

DeleteFrame(8575)

Then serve the script into VirtualDub. You might have to delete more frames after that one, depending on whether it is a keyframe.

[asscore]

thanks!

I've never had a need to use avisynth, so I would've never thought of that!

I'll give it a shot.