Recover/repair "bad capture" file

[dOdGE dIZ]

First of all, thank you for taking an interest and read this.

Secondly, I tried to find some post(s) addressing this but found only an unanswered one, around eight months ago, so I'm hoping for better luck.

What I have:

An incorrectly ended capture file (video only) due to system crash, causes unknown and a first, actually!... Well, not the "crash" obviously, but during capture (and that means thousands of hours).

This file is correctly identified by Explorer - correct file name and size, but nothing else. It isn't readable and VDub won't open it as an "unknown or unsupported file type".

It was captured with a DC10plus, into an AVI (M-JPEG codec), using VirtualVCR. The OS is Xp Pro/SP2 and all partitions are in NTFS.

My question is: Is there a tool that "closes" the capture/file and makes it readable? I don't need the whole file, only portions.

Thank you.

[GrofLuigi]

Is there a tool that "closes" the capture/file and makes it readable?
It seems to me that the capture program did not have time to write the AVI headers and/or other information.

You could try it opening it in Virtual Dub (http://virtualdub.org) with extended options and do "rederive keyframe flags".

There are other programs that promise repair of such files, like Divfix++ (http://divfixpp.sourceforge.net) (it should be able to work with other codecs too).

But sometimes it will not be successful.

GL