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- 1. About
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- This program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies.
- It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file.
- There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video
- stream.
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- 2. Usage
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- !!! W A R N I N G !!!
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- For your maximum safety, you should use this program on a backup copy first to avoid
- problems from possible bugs and from continuing the download later without stripping the
- index.
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- If you want to continue the download later, don't forget to strip the index!
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- !!! W A R N I N G !!!
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- If you have a partially downloaded movie and you want to look in it, then open the file
- with DivFix and use the "Rebuild Index" function. Now you can look the movie. If you want
- to continue the download, open the file again with DivFix, use the "Strip Index" function,
- finish the download and then use the "Rebuild Index" again to correct the file-size in the
- AVI header (the only data which is changed by DivFix from the original movie).
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- You can use DivFix with command-line parameters too (and you can use wildcards). For detailed help on the parameters use "DivFix.exe /?".
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- 3. Known bugs:
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- In some cases after using DivFix, the source file remain locked and cannot be deleted,
- but this looks like a WindowsXP bug for me.
- Some people reported problems using DivFix with the XVID codec, but unfortunately it
- works correctly all of my XVID films... :)
- There should be still some I/O-error (but hey, this is the first and only
- program i made with Borland Delphi... :). If you can send me a video that
- produce such error, i will try to fix it.
- But if you send meg bug-report, PLEASE write down the version number too... :)
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- 4. Future plans:
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- (I should do many of those already, but don't have too much free time lately)
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- Support for AVIs larger than 2GB
- Keyboard shortcuts to the functions
- selectable prefix or suffix for the filename
- Selectable starting directory (fix or remember the last dir)
- Resizable form (i want to do this with my Delphi 3, so ideas are welcome)
- Rebuild only with a given size (ideal for a preview)
- Maybe a read-error handling (retry or ignore at read errors)
- The name of the temporary index and logfile will be created from the AVI filename
- At batch execution at an error, DivFix should continue with the next file
- Coloring the filenames in the listbox which are ready or which have problems
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- 6. Copyright
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- Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Csaba Budai
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- This program is released under the GNU General Public License. It may be used freely,
- and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details, please
- read the file License.txt which comes with this archive. If not, please contact me for
- the original archive.
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- 7. Contact addresses
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- You can download the recent DivFix versions from the 'official' DivFix page:
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- http://divfix.maxeline.com
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- If you like this program, you should send a postcard (with a nice picture
- about your city or country) or $5 (but you are not forced to do so, because
- this is a freeware utility) to the following address:
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- Budai Csaba
- Tatabanya
- Elod vezer u. 14. 3/12.
- 2800
- Hungary
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- You can send bugreports (please include the version number!!!), suggestions, etc. to the
- following e-mail address:
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- divfix@freemail.hu
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- or you can speak with me on the following ICQ number:
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- UIN: 91811374
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- Meanwhile i lost my previous e-mail addres at the usa.net and with it a few unanswered
- mail. Sorry for those i did not answer (because of that) or answered later (because i have
- a few life-related problems and that's why i was late with the new version).
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- Special thanks to Kimmo Hassinen and Arty (arty@freemail.hu) for the beta testing!
- Yes, you can send those mail-bombs to him in case of any damage, that my program do
- for you... :)