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[leezer3]

Odd one this- Can anyone make any sense of it?
I have a set of 23 40mins AVI files, all encoded by the same person with the same settings etc. One of these is refusing to play- I'm getting the classic corrupted AVI symptons (Audio continues, video locks), but nothing I've tried can find anything wrong. The file in question runs perfectly in WMP10, & DivX repair reports no bad frames. The files are encoded with DivX 5.2.1, & I can provide the full Gspot info if it's required.

Thoughts?

-Leezer-

[JimH]

Try a search here for CCP, a set of DirectShow filters that work.

[leezer3]

OK, this just gets odder 
You may remember my previous post on some filenames not importing- I think there's some sort of gremlin somewhere in the MC works. The file in question is named:

Star Trek DS9- 1x12 - Vortex [NiteShdw 170mb].avi

All the other files in the folder follow exactly the same naming convention, and work perfectly. If I rename the file in any way at all (For example adding 1 to the start of the filename), then it plays perfectly. A copy of the file plays perfectly, as long as the name is different. Move it out of the folder, and once again it plays perfectly, but in the same folder with the same naming convention as the rest of the files it simply doesn't work.
I've also tried a random selection of files from the other Star Trek series, all of which follow very similar naming conventions, and all work perfectly, its just this one filename in the very specific folder that doesn't.

CCP is installed, only codec pack on the machine.

I'm lost.

-Leezer-

[JimH]

Try renaming an MP3 file to that name and see if you can import it.

Try renaming that file and typing every character of the name -- not a copy and paste.

[leezer3]

OK, completely nuts 
Any AVI file using that name & in the same relative place in the filesystem will display the symptons of locked video & continuing audio. However, make any changes to the filename & it plays perfectly.
An MP3 file using the exact name (Including extension) will import & play fine.
No filesystem errors or bad sectors on the drive- I've checked.

As I say, I'm lost.
I suspect this is going to end up in the unfindable gremlins thread though 

-Leezer-

[JimH]

An MP3 file using the exact name (Including extension) will import & play fine.

This probably means that MC is not the culprit.  Not certain, but probably not.

[glynor]

I just have to say...  I'm at a complete loss.  Thats just loony.

Unless... Perhaps the directory itself (which is essentially just a file with pointers to different file names), is somehow corrupted, but is not being detected by the disk check (somehow)...

Can you try making a new folder, and moving/copying all of the files to it (including the bad one), and then deleting the original folder and renaming the new one to the same thing as the old one?  It seems like a (very) long shot but it's all I have.