#14 The selected file is not an avi file

[Anonymous]

I was making a very very very long recording session in camstudio and the file didn't save, I however successfully recovered the damaged temp file. When I try to open it DivFix++ says it's not an avi file... it is, it end with *.avi and I know it is an avi file. Isn't it supposed to fix this kind of problems? Why do some other commercial programs overcome this and this not huh?

[Death Knight®]

Hi there,
First of all, think about what happen If you are rename abc.wmv file to abc.avi ?
Most of players could discard file name and read file type from file structure...
So, does it really avi file? I don't think... Please open that video file with HexEditor (for example http://wxhexeditor.sourceforge.net ) and look first 4 digit. If that is really an AVI file, file needed to start with "RIFF" text. Also analyze it if it's empty or not...

DivFix++ needed to fix your half saved avi files. But that file is TEMP file, not an actual AVI file. Also I don't know camstudio's temp file format. You can't guess it as AVI file from just looking the file name..
If you could reach that file to me, I can analyze and could told what could be happen to recover it. Or not.
Thanks...