an avi is made up of two important things. The Video and Audio stream, located at the start of the file, and the index file, located at the end. The index file takes up about .5-10% of the end of the avi file. It provides information on the avi, and tells the player being used where to go to play a particular part. Some players can live without an index file, but most can’t. This is what can cause glitching etc.
If the file isnt a divx/mp4 file then there maybe a change it doesnt have such an index file as im not too sure every video has some kind of index file.
If converting it doesnt work, try a program called VirtualDub. This will import the video and should cut it frame by frame.
http://www.divx-dige...are/divfix.html
or
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Got you. I thought it might be to do with the meta data (is that the right term) at the end of the file. I've got VirtualDub so I'll run it through that as well and see what happens. I'm not that up on video technology. I know I assembled a veritable arsenal of tools when I was working on a web project that used flvs extensively. I'll load it up into WinHex as well and see what that tells me. If I don't have any success I might just upload the recovered data and you can have a look at it if that's ok.
Malc
