cheap as free video editing?
 

As the name implies, I need a freeware program to do something rather specific. My wife and I have borrowed some video files, the problem is that for some reason the clips timing is off. For example, the movie should be around 6-7 minutes, yet the timer is set to 30 seconds or so and stops/freezes after that, no matter what player I am in. However, if I click on the "timeline" I can skip to various parts of the movies, which will then run for a few seconds and stop.

Any help, oh wizards of the TFP?

Using XP, and all the video programs (real, QT, Winplayer 10) show the same time. For AVI and MPG files.

You don't need a video editor, you need a new codec.

search for the k-lite codec pack on Google- that'll get you pretty much everything you'll need without having to dick around with trying to find your specific codec.

you might try:

Virtual Dub http://www.virtualdub.org/ (GPL)

or

Video fixer http://www.video-fixer.com/ (not free)

you could try divfix if its an avi. set it to cut out the bad frames.
http://divfix.maxeline.com/divfix.html

Check out http://www.videohelp.com Look under tools and edit. Lots of good info on how to edit video and what tools (some free) are out there to do it..

You probably got the answers you want already, but if you want to really do some video editing, there is some professional software out there an availible that is open source. It's called
Cinelerra, and you can get it at http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

Be warned, it's designed to be a pro-tool, so if you aren't trying to do something big, virtualdub would probably be a better choice. But if you are trying to do something big, you can set this up, and get the same floating-point pixel format, and image rendering farm abilities as the big guys.

Last time I tried Cinelerra (about a year ago) it was buggy and underfeatured, has much changed?