Apr 21, 2020 Other ways of opening AVI files on Mac. Another way to open AVI files on Mac is to convert them into formats that are supported by QuickTime. One of the most reliable software that we can recommend for Mac users is Movavi Video Converter, which is an intuitive encoding program for converting AVI, MTS, FLV, WMV, DVD VOB, MKV and MPEG to MPEG-4, MOV and a variety of other. Coverted.WMV file to my Mac OS 10X.MOV This is a free app. I converted three.WMV files so I can run them on my Macbook Pro OS X. This software gives you a ton of choices on the type of conversion you want. I convert to.MOV I found under All Profiles. The software converted the three files in. Jul 24, 2019 The last in our list for best AVI player is DivX- a user friendly media player for conveniently playing the AVI files on your Mac. DivX ensures to give excellent audio-video visual to the users. Its exceptionally powerful playback features include desktop dimmer, window fade and a full screen option can easily skyrocket the level of the AVI file.
Have you ever downloaded a video and gotten an error message that the file could not be played because it is damaged or corrupt? There are many reasons why a video file could become corrupt ranging from bad sectors on a hard drive to electromagnetic interference to power failures to torrent problems, etc.
Luckily, most damaged AVI or MPG files can be fixed because the problem is normally related to the index. If the index is repaired, then the files can be read by the media player again.
In this article, I’m going to talk about a couple of programs that can help you repair corrupt video files. Note that you might end up with a smaller file or with parts of the video missing when using these tools, so make sure to create a backup of the original file.
Also, if you end up using multiple tools, make sure to always start off with the original file for each program. Performing multiple repairs on the same video file using different programs could lead to more corruption!
It’s also worth noting that I specifically didn’t mention a couple of programs that you might run across online because of various issues. Digital Video Repair by Rising Research showed up as having malware when I ran it through VirusTotal.
Another program called File Repair that claims it can repair files of all sorts, but it didn’t repair my test AVI file and therefore wasn’t really worth mentioning for this article.
DivFix++
DivFix++ has been around for a long time and does a really good job of repairing AVI and DivX files. Once you download it, go ahead and extract all the files and then run the EXE file.
Click the Add Files button to choose your video file and then click on the Check Errors button to have the program scan to see if there are any issues.
In order to fix the file, go ahead and click on the Fix button. In my instance, it gave me an error count of 0, but the video was still not playable because I purposely messed up the index.
Even so, when I clicked the Fix button, it instantly repaired the file and created a copy because I checked the Keep Original File box. It will output the repaired video in the same directory as the original video file.
I could also tell before I even played the video that the file was repaired because Windows was showing me a thumbnail of the first frame rather than a generic video icon. Go ahead and give this program a shot first because it usually works.
VLC Media Player
If you already have VLC Media Player installed on your computer, then this might be the better option because it has the ability to repair the index for an AVI file.
When you open the damaged file, you’ll get a message asking what you would like to do: Build index then play, Play as is, or Do not play.
If you have a bunch of files that are having this problem, you can have VLC automatically fix the file when it is played by going to Tools and then Preferences. Click on Inputs and Codecs and then choose Always Fix next to Damaged or incomplete AVI file.
Now whenever you open a damaged AVI file, it will automatically fix it temporarily and play the video. Note that it does not actually modify the original video file itself, instead it just fixes the issue in memory and plays the file.
Remo Repair AVI
Remo Repair AVI is a free program to download, but will try to charge you a whopping $70 when you go to save your repaired video. This is just a ridiculous price and because of the way the program is currently coded, it can easily be bypassed.
Download the program, install it and then run it. Click the Browse button to select your video file and then click on the big Repair button.
Now don’t worry about clicking on Save or Preview because the program has already repaired the file and simply saved it to a hidden folder on the computer.
First, go ahead and open Explorer and configure it so that you can see hidden files and folders in Windows 8 or Windows 10. If you’re running Windows 7, click on Organize and then Folder and Search Options.
Next, click on the View tab and then click on the Show hidden files, folders and drives button.
Now navigate to the following folder on your hard drive:
Here you should see a file called $tp and it should be the same size or very close to your original video file. The file won’t have any extension so it’ll look like a default document.
Go ahead and copy this file to anywhere you like and then just rename it to anything you like, but make sure to put an .AVI extension to the end. For example, I copied mine to the desktop, right-clicked on it, chose Rename and then typed in MyVideo.avi. BAM! You can now play the repaired video just fine.
Hopefully, one of these three methods will get you a repaired and playable AVI video! If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!
Although MKV video format are gaining popularity these days as you can find many movie rips and HD camcorder records in MKV, AVI video format that was very popular many years back are still commonly being used today. One of a good reason to use AVI format is the built-in Windows Media Player 12 that is built in to Windows 7 can most of the time play AVI files without installing any third party codecs. There are also many screen recording software such as CamStudio, HyperCam 2 and Bandicam that saves the video recording to AVI only.
It is possible to encounter a corrupted AVI file where it doesn’t play on any media player software at all including VLC Media Player. One example is the popular CamStudio that outputs a corrupted AVI file when the result file is at several gigabytes. Opening on Windows Media Player would prompt an error window saying “Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file“.
Here are 5 free methods that you can use to repair or fix the corrupted AVI video file.
1. BandiFixBandiFix is an AVI repair module that comes with the popular screen recording software Bandicam. Although Bandicam is a shareware with limited functionality, but thankfully the AVI recovery program is offered for free without limitations.
After installing Bandicam, you can run BandiFix from the start menu shortcut and a program with a simple user interface will launch. All you need to do is select the corrupt AVI file that you want to fix, and BandiFix will automatically start to process and repair the damaged file. The repaired AVI file will be saved to a new file at the same location of where the corrupted AVI.
Download Bandicam
2. Remo Repair AVI
Remo Repair AVI is actually a shareware that comes with powerful and latest algorithm to repair corrupted AVI files that you cannot even play. The good thing about Remo Repair AVI is the demo version attempts to fix the broken AVI file, then let you preview to see and decide if the repair is successful. The ability to save the repaired AVI will only be unlocked by purchasing a license that cost $69.
The good news is, we found that the repaired file that you preview can actually be retrieved manually. First you need to go to Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab and select “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option and click OK. Then go to C:Program FilesRemo Repair AVI and open the hidden $tp folder where you will find a file avi.avi. That file is the repaired AVI file by Remo Repair AVI.
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3. Digital Video Repair
Digital Video Repair is another free tool that comes with quite a few number of algorithms to repair unplayable AVI files. It is able to fix the common AVI index corruption like what VLC media player does, and also fixing large AVI files created by CamStudio. To use it, click on the Input File button, browse for the corrupted file and click the Repair! button. You can check the file status message after loading the file to see if it is damaged that requires fixing or if it is OK.
Digital Video Repair tool is actually a very small and portable program at only 121KB in size but we hated the installer as it comes with an adware. If you do not accept the installation of the adware, the Digital Video Repair tool will not be installed. A way to go around this restriction is to download the latest version of Inno Setup Unpacker, extract the binary file to Universal Extractor’sbin folder and use Universal Extractor to unpack the installer where you will get program’s application dvr.exe at the {app} folder. Alternatively, you can download the program that we’ve extracted from the link below.
Download Digital Video Repair
4. DivFix++
DivFix++ is a well known tool to fix bad AVI files that has been published at many websites. It is a complete rewrite from the old DivFix but the program itself is badly outdated as well. The program generated tons of “can’t find current position” errors and eventually crashing when we tried fixing a corrupt AVI that is nearly 3GB in size. DivFix++ is free and open source.
Download DivFix++
5. KMPlayer
Although KMPlayer is a media player and not an AVI fixing utility, but in our experience it has managed to force play many bad and corrupted video files even when it has failed to play in VLC media player and many others. The other good thing about using KMPlayer is it comes with internal codecs that enables to play many different video formats without installing codec packs. Do pay extra attention during installation because it prompts to install unnecessary toolbars and adware.
Download KMPlayer
Editors Note: We would rate Bandicam as our favorite AVI repair program because it is free and also the program is actively being maintained. We also highly recommend Remo Repair AVI because it is new and most importantly managed to repair one of our unplayable AVI file. Digital Video Repair works as well except we didn’t really like the “adware” that comes with it but using the “stripped” version solved the problem. As for DivFix++, it is an old program and not updated for years which may not have the latest technologies in fixing today’s corrupted AVI file.
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ReplyI have a video recorded in Bandicam, and BandiFix cannot seem to fix it. It appears that MP4Fix.org can fix it, however I cannot afford to pay so much money for me to be able to recover the footage. What could I do if FFMPeg, VLC, or other paid MP4 repair software doesen’t work?
ReplyI gave BandiFix and Remo a try. Neither one of them worked. Trying to repair a couple of corrupted AVI files, both pieces of software failed in recovery.
OK… Fair enough. Perhaps the AVI files were just too “far gone” to be repaired.
Curious, I then tried running both BandiFix and Remo on a few AVI files that were running smoothly to begin with and showed no signs of corruption. Once again, however, both BandiFix and Remo produced messages saying the AVI files could not be repaired.
I’m not convinced any of these pieces of AVI repair software actually work.
ReplyThey do work up to a point, I used to use Divfix on occasion many years ago and it usually got the AVI to a point where it would at least play the video. But they are by no means magic fixes.
ReplyDigital Video Repair did the job just fine! I had broken sound in an older .avi file and now my problem is resolved.
ReplyI have never known KMPlayer can repair corrupted files even though I have used it for years. Besides the tools mentioned in the review, WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory is also a good tool to repair files. I once used it to recovery some MP4 files and the results are fine.
ReplyDigital video repair worked like gold! Thank you so much for the list!
ReplyI use VLC a lot and when I download or save an AVI file, VLC always wants to FIX it and that takes time.
The time is OK but VLC does not seem to FIX it permanently as every time I play them, it “re-fixes” them again.
It does not say why it fixes them so does anyone know why? And what programs fixes them the best?
ReplyPatrick, you have to use the Menu > Convert option and feed the corrupt video there. Choose any of the MP4 options as output. The original file won’t be affected. If the damage is not huge, VLC usually will do the job.
Replywith remo the file output into the $tp folder is just labled $tp. but ig you rename it with .avi it works just fine
ReplyViewing Avi Files On Mac
I use bandicam and did bandifix on many of my files, but they turn into just music files when i play them. Help plz
ReplyI tried Bandifix on a large AVI file that plays alright in VLC but chokes in other players at a few minutes in. Bandifix only saved the early portion that is playable in other players. Next I tried the trial version of Remo, an have yet to find an AVI file that does not return “The fie is too large to be processed.” —- worthless in trial form anyway Although these files play most times in VLC I like to convert the files to FLV to save space. I wish VLC would offer option to correct and save the repaired header file.
I tried Digitial Video Recorder and the although it did recover the previously unplayable portions of the AVI, the corrupt portions of the video was marred by video spectres and the audio had a monotonous clock tick tick sound?
What did work for me: Bandicam recommends if all else fails to use VLC to play the video and re-record with Bandicam Well, all is good until you each the 10-minute limitation on the trial version of Bandicam. But using VLC to replay and using the original recording SW (Hypercam 2) to re-record using the ‘Region’ function of Hypercam (so I could do this unhindered on a second monitor) I achieved the end goal – a complete AVI fiie I could convert to FLV.
Curious Apprentice, I tried the trick of re-encoding the thing as mp4 in the hope htat I could re-encode it back to AVI after it got fixed. That, too stopped at 21 out of 130 minutes.
It’s binned.
Thanks, everyone. Even though it didn’t work, I’ve learned stuff and had fun.
Thanks so much for the article and for making it us easy to find adware free programs.
For my test, I found that Remo fixed my file with a lot of forced slow motion parts, so just ok. Digital Video Repair seemed to do a great job. Another program repair Video Master did an alright job but the end video was a little more unstable.
ReplyThanks a million for the list. Very helpful indeed.
ReplyThanks for this article, you fixed my problem. I had an .Avi file that showed absolutely no codec information, video or audio. Free audio recording software mac. Despite this, VLC was still able to play it, with the provision that it rebuild the index first, and which I did. Unfortunately it doesn’t encode this new info in the file, it just does it temporarily for its own purpose. I was looking more to fix the file permanently, not just be able to play it.
To make a long story a bit shorter… I ran through the first 4 of the 5 tools you presented, and the only one that managed to do what I wanted, which is fix to file permanently as if it never had any problems at all to begin with, was DivFix++, which I got from SourceForge. Rebuilt the index permanently and all codec info is now readable by any tool that can do so.
So thx again, very useful article. Too bad DivFix++ wasn’t closer to the top of the list though, heh-heh. :)
ReplyThanks for the article. Was helpful!
ReplyI normally use “AviDemux” or “Kirara Encoder” to re-encode the corrupted file (Most probably any other Video Converter will do).
Most of the time I get satisfactory result irrespective of the codec and the container previously used to encode the file.
ReplyWOW….great trick of finding the preview file in the hidden folder in Remo Repair AVI,in free of cost without registering….you are rocking raymond blog….Thanks a lot
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