Re: HOW TO CONSTRuCT XVID HEADER FROM INCOMPLETE XVIDWHEN ENCODER DETAILS ARE KNOWN

On Sat, 08 May 2004 19:44:05 -0400 "Tesla 13" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you! It would have been great to hear this before spending countless 
> hours on the issue throughout the entire week. At least you saved me
> now from spending countless hours more : )

> How about the video? Isn't it possible to salvage it at all?

you should be able retreive the video, by scaning the AVI file for
MPEG-4 start-codes, then extract each AVI frame bitstream. 
however iam not aware of any tools that automate this process.

alternatively, try decoding the AVI file as a raw m4v-bitstream using
xvid_decraw.

-- pete