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AVI JPG target: index block missing
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System Information
Win7/64, GTX 750 Ti

Blender Version
2.72

Short description of error
If the output format is AVI JPG, the resulting file, if opened in VirtualDub, leads to the error message "missing index block".
The GSpot tool says about the same file: "Bad chunk in frame data: Invalid length"
The happens with any created AVI JPG file. The current one is 5 GB, so I can't send it.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Create an AVI JPG file.

Event Timeline

Willi (willi) created this task.Oct 23 2014, 12:58 AM
Willi (willi) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 30.Oct 23 2014, 10:42 AM
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We need reproducible steps to redo an error,
marking incomplete.

Willi (willi) added a comment.Oct 23 2014, 1:07 PM
  1. Open Blender
  2. In a scene of your choice, go to the "Output" panel in the render settings. There, select AVI JPG as the target.
  3. Render an animation. The resulting file will suffer from the problem.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) assigned this task to Sergey Sharybin (sergey).Oct 30 2014, 2:48 PM
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Sergey, you should know what to do about that?

Bastien Montagne (mont29) raised the priority of this task from 30 to Normal.Oct 30 2014, 2:48 PM
Sergey Sharybin (sergey) reassigned this task from Sergey Sharybin (sergey) to Campbell Barton (campbellbarton).Oct 31 2014, 10:02 AM
Sergey Sharybin (sergey) added a subscriber: Sergey Sharybin (sergey).

@Bastien Montagne (mont29), @Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) is much better in ANI JPEG than me. If that was me, i'd just use FFmpeg backend, less code to maintain :)

Sergey Sharybin (sergey) added a comment.Dec 26 2014, 11:20 AM

Forgot to mention, @Campbell Barton (campbellbarton), i wouldn't really consider this a bug. More like a nice thing to support.. For more robust interchange i'd suggest using FFmpeg.

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Mar 9 2015, 1:52 PM

Blender currently writes the AVI-1 spec which has a limit of 4gig. We could add support for AVI-1.02 but rather then spend time here probably its better just to use ffmpeg.

Closing as known limitation.