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The VideoLAN Forums • View topic - Fixing AVI index was never a problem before
I am running VLC version 0.9.9a on my Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 running OS X 10.5.6.
I recently began having a problem playing AVI files.
When I drag an AVI file to the VLC player an error box pops out of the player that reads as such with the three options below:
AVI Index
This AVI file is broken.
Seeking will not work correctly.
Do you want to try to repair it?
This might take a long time.
(Don't Repair) (Cancel) (Repair)
If and when I click on (Repair) or I change the Preferences the automatically repair broken AVI files then it 'fixes' them in under a minute, for the most part.
But I never had this issue before.
It only started happening with some recent .avi s that I got downloaded.
What is worse, is that after happening to the new files, when I go back to try to open old AVI files that had NEVER had such issues, THEY TOO are now 'broken' and in need of fixing!!
What is happening?
And how do I fix it?
Do I even need seeking?
My instincts tell me to turn off the auto fixing and even to turn on the 'Never Fix' feature in the Preferences.
And, in fact, this stops the error box from appearing and the AVI plays just fine.
But what am I losing by turning off fixing AVI files at all?
I can still click through the AVI to 'seek' without any problems, although...
In the past when I have clicked too many times throughout an AVI file it has eventually crashed VLC.
This I don't mind so much though, I just want my files to play at startup without the delay while they are 'fixed'.
Thoughts?
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I have started having the same problem.
At first I thought it was new AVI files I had downloaded within the past couple of weeks, but when I go to old AVI files that I know worked before, they are all needing to be fixed and sometimes take upward of 10 minutes where before they didn't.
I can't seem to find any forum entry anywhere by googling that comes up with a solution.
My old Mac with VLC had this problem before, and that was fixed by simply deleting the old version of VLC and installing a newer version.
But this one is the current issue.
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Same thing here, all of a sudden every file needs fixing, after working no problem for literally years.
Great product though, like it says I have been using it for years!
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If you go to Input & Codecs in preferences in Preferences you can choose "Never Fix" index repairing, which I now have, but I wonder if it renders bad quality?
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