How to repair AVI video files

Movie or serial files downloaded through internet might be found corrupted when you tries to play them other problems in this category might be video playback stops or freezes suddenly, distorted or disoriented pictures or images, broken or not smooth video stream, prematurely terminated or partially downloaded files, video cannot be seeked and etc.

The error in playing a video files, especially after spending hours to download ad the media, is frustrating and annoying. Re-downloading the files can take ages again, and worse if the videos are no longer available elsewhere. Here are some helpful tools which will help you to fix the files..

DivFix++

DivFix++ (or DivFixPP) enhances and improves on the DivFix, the pioneering AVI video repair utility, to fix the bugs and fasten the performance. DivFix++ started its life as CLI “DivFix” clone, and has since been given a GUI. Thus, DivFix++ also supports several CLI (command line interface) argument parameters. DivFix++ repairs broken AVI file streams by rebuilding index part of file.

Tip: “Strip Index” button removes index of AVI video files, causing the video unsearchable or unseekable (fast forward or backward), while “Check Errors” allows user to check if the files has any error prior to fixing.

Download DivFix++ v0.34 for Windows (32-bit): DivFix++_v0.34-Win32.zip
Download DivFix++ v0.34 for Windows (64-bit): DivFix++_v0.34-Win64.zip
Download DivFix++ v0.34 for Mac OS X: DivFix++_v0.34-Mac.dmg
Download DivFix++ One Click Install v0.01 for OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, CentOS and RHEL Linux: DivFix++ One Click Install v0.01.ymp

DivFix

DivFix was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies, by rebuilding or stripping the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file. There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.

Download DivFix v1.10 for Windows: DivFix110.zip
Download DivFix v1.10 for Linux: DivFix110.tar.gz (Library Files)

DivXRepair

DivXRepair can repair corrupted AVI files and eliminate freezes. DivXRepair is based on VirtualDub, and it automatically detects and cut off or eliminates bad frames which are undecodable or freezing, then re-assemble the AVI file. Download DivXRepair v1.0.1 for Windows: DivXRepair_BIN_v1.0.1.zip

Digital Video Repair

Digital Video Repair (DVR) is a free small utility for repairing (fixing) AVI files. Features of Digital Video Repair include ability to detect the bad data, repair the index AVI file, detect the key-frame for XviD, DivX 4/5, 3ivx, Microsoft MPEG4 (versions 1, 2, 3), DivX 3.11 and late (versions 1, 2, 3 Low or Fast), Angel Potion (versions 1 or 2) codecs, and support the Standart AVI file format (Microsoft Video for Windows ) and the OpenDML AVI file format.

Download Digital Video Repair 2.2: dvrsetup.exe