Corrupted avi still plays on Virtualdub and Avidemux but no longer plays on VLC / Windows Player.

I have several camcorder captures on my hard drive (.avi Huffyuv), that I was planning to edit and transcode into lighter formats at a later time. I would like to keep these files in AVI format using either Huffyuv or Lagarith.

All was going well until I got a disk error and foolishly ran chkdsk (with repair enabled). Result: I got access to the folders again but all my captured files have gone nuts. They play fine in VLC up until about 11 minutes and that's when they go psychedelic (wildly alternating Green / blue/ yellow / red / purple boxes and stripes and "snowy" sound too). The interesting thing here is that every single file plays fine up until about 11 mins, regardless of how long they are.

The files play normally on Virtualdub and Avidemux

I've tried transcoding (if that's the right word) in Virtual (direct stream copy, fast recompress, normal recompress and full processing - this last option provided best results but the file is still unwatchable) but they still come out blocky when played in VLC. Same results with Avidemux

Windows media player will only play sound and haven't tried other players, but I think they will most likely also throw up errors.

What can I do? Any ideas?

I have saved the chkdsk log and I can also upload samples of the videos on here.

Thanks

 

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