As the gods of video are my witness…
…the blog post to which I’m about to link may be one of the most useful things in the history of home-server-based video.
AVI Chunk Viewer: how to remove it
AVI Chunk Viewer, or as I’ve come to call it, AVI Chunk Blower is something that gets installed with a lot of video codec packs. What it does is pop up anytime it finds an AVI file that it thinks doesn’t conform to AVI standards, as laid out by its author. It stops you from doing anything else with the file it’s flagged until you close AVI Chunk Blower again. It doesn’t take different codecs into account (i.e. an AVI generated with an AVID codec). It’s the most nitpicky, annoying thing I’ve ever seen on a computer that happened not to be a virus.
And the above blog link shows you how to rid yourself of it by nondestructively renaming a single file.… Read more
