How to repair WMV file that only VLC can play

ingvarai wrote on 6/3/2010, 4:45 AM
I have used HiDownload Platinum to stream down video form a TV station. In this case, something has happened, the file has some damage somewhere.
Windows Explorer cannot display the usual thumbnail.
Vegas 9e crashes when trying to "build peaks"
Adobe Premiere reports "Damaged file"

The funny and interesting thing - the free VLC player plays back the entire video (46 minutes) just fine!! I can watch the entire program in VLC player, video and audio is just great.

I do not want to stream it down again. Is there an application out there that will use the same mechanism as VLC when reading the file and possibly repair it, or convert it to MPG? An application that is not as picky as the others / or is as smart as VLC..
Ingvar

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richard-courtney wrote on 6/3/2010, 6:11 AM
Using VLC can you identify the codec it is using? Hit Control J while viewing.

Would having VLC stream it to a TS file be ok?
ingvarai wrote on 6/3/2010, 7:11 AM
RCourtney, thanks!

>Using VLC can you identify the codec it is using? Hit Control J while viewing.

Stream 0
Codec: wma2
Language;
Type: Audio
Channels: 2
Sample rate 48000Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 128 kb/s

Stream 1
Codec: WMV3
Language:
Type: Video
Resoultion: 768x432

>Would having VLC stream it to a TS file be ok?
I am getting VLC Could not open the encoder
It encodes audio, but not video.

Any help on this ie very much appreciated

Ingvar
Xander wrote on 6/3/2010, 7:34 AM
You can use VLC to convert the file to another format that you can use. Look under File -> Convert/Save and change the output settings as you desire.
ingvarai wrote on 6/3/2010, 7:43 AM
Xander,
You can use VLC to convert the file to another format that you can use.
I tried to do this. My final target is to burn a DVD. So I do not want to recompress more than once. I have tried both convert to file (I got an error "VLC Could not open the encoder" and I tried stream to file.
When I streame dto file, I got a complete video without sound, but Vegas refuses to open it.
Ingvar
ingvarai wrote on 6/3/2010, 7:57 AM
Latest news:

I have not solved these issues regarding VLC player.
But it turns out that DVD Architect will eat these WMV files raw, as they are, and since DVDA also has a time line where I can trim the videos, I am "saved" this time..

Ingvar