How can I fix a broken AVI file?

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Published on 2010-05-16T08:18:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 8:20 UTC
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I have a broken AVI, it won't play in VLC, Xine or MPlayer.

I tried Handbrake (reads the file and resets the source to None), OggConvert, Avidemux and mencoder fail to read the file, I cannot seem to reencode this file.

I suspect the header info is corrupt, is there a way to get the a/v streams out with a missing header?

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