Damaged WMV file. cant repair - help?

have a WMV file that playes fine upto about 30 secs into the clip. then nada. cant jump past this point either tried what i found in the guides to repair and convert to an avi tmpegenc opens it fine, encodes to the damaged point then stops. 0% CPU usage after tried avisynth. the avs is opened fine, but whenever the point of 'damage' is hit, vdubmod/mplayerc etc just closes itself tried asftools and all the repair options i found. no joy at all tried the old version of vdub that opened asf - just says - couldnt locate decompressor for format 'MP43' even tho ffdshow should play that format as it does when i play the clip in mpc. any option i've missed to fix this or is it just a goner?

If it's that old, the file's probably survived several reinstalls, and xp no longer comes with those codecs. xD Installing the microsoft 6.4 codec pack should fix it, as would setting ffdshow-vfw to decode the formats. Virtualdub-MPEG2 has experimental asf support, partially derived from avery's original 1.3c code but more bugfixed, so maybe that could open your file.

setarip_old i didnt create the file so never had those codecs, but FFD show plays the file fine so not sure why it cant use that to decode the clip foxyshadis will give that one a go although the clip isnt really old - i just keep things like the old vdub ver that supported asf in case i ever needed it. :)

You have to get the microsoft wmp 6.4 codecs. (The wmp9 codecs are why ffdshow can decode it in other players, but they don't do vfw.)

opened it in that other V of vdub and it opened it no hassle at all - but cant read past that same point that tmpegenc stopped at :( looks like the clip is just goosed ta all for the advice anyway :)

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I say use . It is suppose to be able to read past damaged points in an asf (eg wmv & wma) file and find the next good sample. Give it a try.