Avi Chunk Viewer ? (1 Viewer)

[elvis56]

Using Windows 7 / Media Portal Latest / SAF 5.00.

Been getting a box pop up lately called AVI Chunk Viewer when trying to watch certain vidz. Anyone ever see this? I cant seem to move my mouse pointer over the box to select Not to show this message again. Video wont play until I get rid of the box pop up

 

[hoborg]

Using Windows 7 / Media Portal Latest / SAF 5.00.

Been getting a box pop up lately called AVI Chunk Viewer when trying to watch certain vidz. Anyone ever see this? I cant seem to move my mouse pointer over the box to select Not to show this message again. Video wont play until I get rid of the box pop up

Hi.
I think this is caused by MS AVI splitter.
Try to update to latest SAF5 - MPC-HC AVI splitter will be used instead.
If not, remux AVI to MKV (MKV merge) to fix this issue.

 

[elvis56]

Pretty sure this one has SAF 5.00 SVN100903 on it so I will update to the newest and see. The video plays fine after I go to task manager and end the Avi Chunk Viewer process. I cant use the mouse over the box which is the strange thing. I also happened to notice that my CPU load was strangely high. Around 40 to 50% until I rebooted but I can't say for sure what caused that.

thanks Hoborg

 

[hoborg]

This can happend on AVIs that are not supported by MPC splitter, then MS splitter is used instead. If you can post small sample, i will look.

But change container AVI to MKV will fix that for sure.

 

[elvis56]

Been looking on the web and it seems alot of folks have this issue. Most talk about it while using k-Lite Codec pack.

I found what appears to be a fix to get rid of that annoying AVI Chunk Viewer, which appears to come up with certian AVI files when you have the "AVI Splitter" installed. For me, it was installed with the K-Lite codec pack, and can be disabled without uninstalling K-Lite, just use their "Codec Tweak Tool" located under your Start menu's K-Lite Codec Pack\Configuration folder. Scroll down until you see AVI Splitter under 'disable...' section, and check it off (be sure to uncheck the rest that automatically get toggled on when you click AVI Splitter), and that seems to have done it for me (although i have only tested a few files, but they used to make the AVI Chunk Viewer window appear, and no longer do).

Must be away to disable this. I know what you are saying Hoborg but I have 8 seasons of according to Jim Tv Series in Avi format. I dont want to redo all of them as mkv lol

Thanks for your help bud

 

[hoborg]

Been looking on the web and it seems alot of folks have this issue. Most talk about it while using k-Lite Codec pack.

I found what appears to be a fix to get rid of that annoying AVI Chunk Viewer, which appears to come up with certian AVI files when you have the "AVI Splitter" installed. For me, it was installed with the K-Lite codec pack, and can be disabled without uninstalling K-Lite, just use their "Codec Tweak Tool" located under your Start menu's K-Lite Codec Pack\Configuration folder. Scroll down until you see AVI Splitter under 'disable...' section, and check it off (be sure to uncheck the rest that automatically get toggled on when you click AVI Splitter), and that seems to have done it for me (although i have only tested a few files, but they used to make the AVI Chunk Viewer window appear, and no longer do).

Must be away to disable this. I know what you are saying Hoborg but I have 8 seasons of according to Jim Tv Series in Avi format. I dont want to redo all of them as mkv lol

Thanks for your help bud

Please, post small AVI sample...

BTW:

The problem is a multiplexing problem.

Normally an AVI file has the video and audio streams in small chunks interspersed (multiplexed) within the file. Typically you'll have one frame worth of video followed by the audio that's associated with that frame. Or a few frames of video and the audio associated with those frames. But because of the flexibility of the file format it's possible for the video and audio chunks not to be next to each other. In a bad case scenario the video could be at the start of the file then all the audio at the end.

The error message in the OP's post is indicating that the video and audio chunks are not always right next to each other. That means the player has to seek back and forth within the file as it plays in order to keep the audio and video in sync. That's usually not a problem when playing off a hard drive because hard drives can seek very quickly. But off slow seeking devices like CD or DVD drives (where seek times can be over a second) it is catastrophic -- playback will get very jerky as the drive seeks back and forth between two sections of the file.

Indexing in AVI files refers to a list of key frames that is usually located at the end of the file. Having a list of keyframes makes it easy for a player to seek to arbitrary locations within the video. Without the keyframe index a player hast read through all the frames in the file to seek to a new location. With the index the player can quickly move to the keyframe just before the desired seek time.

You can fix it by MKV merge (remux to MKV), or just open and save as direct stream copy in VirtualDub.