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VirtualDub

I've been using VirtualDub for so long that I guess I take it for granted. Today was the last time, I was having a problem with an AVI file so I just imported into VirtualDub and re-saved it as a DivX compressed AVI. It was 700 Mb file that MediaPlayer could not open (missing index, corrupted key frames, etc.) After running it through VirtualDub in a few minutes it became a 320 Mb that opened right away, perfect.

VirtualDub is a video capture / processing utility for Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It doesn' have a fancy interface, but it is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.