VLC wont play

[AllanW]

Trying to play Lost from a download from isohunt through VLC. As I play the first episode a pop up says the following:
" This AVI file is broken. Seeking will not work correctly. Do you want to try to fix it. This might take a long time.
  Cancel Don't repair Repair."
When I press repair nothing happens. When I press don't repair, then press play, it does start but only momentary then stops mid frame. Is there a cure. Somebodies help would be appreciated. Thank You
AllanW

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Hello Alan, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm afraid that this is not a bug against Bindwood, but rather the vlc package in Ubuntu; I have set the bug report's tasks to reflect this.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Looks like the AVI file is corrupt. But we cannot verify without a (legal) sample.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information [cannot verify without a (legal) sample.] we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".