Fixing DivX movies the easy way

Oct 08, '02 09:42:24AM

Contributed by: patashnik

Showing DivX movies in Quicktime Player often results in audio-problems. This is related to a bug in Quicktime. To fix this, you have to run the movie through a utility like DivX Doctor or DivX Validator, after which the movie is 'fixed'.

However, I found that FTPing fixed movies invalidates the fixing process. This is because FTP, like any other plain Unix utility, doesn't care about the creator or type file attributes of the HFS+ filesystem, effectively obliterating them.

Without having to resort to another lenghty fixing process, I found that just restoring creator/type attributes on these files does it's magic. There are numerous tools to change these attributes, so I won't bother you with exactly how to change them, just with the needed info. The creator name should be TVOD, the type DAVI.

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