.AVI movie file cuts out halfway in.

Hey guys. I have an .AVI file, and every time I try to play it, it quits out at the exact same point, even though there's 2 more minutes left in the video. I have been able to view the two minutes of the video using "MplayerX", as the file won't even play in quicktime. It's really important that I get these last 2 minutes, and if anybody has any tips they would be much appreciated.

which I can't open (get error msg)
Even if iPhoto cannot open it, VLCapp might be able to play it. But if you have a backup, you can safely delete the movie from iPhoto from the Recovered event in iPhoto. Use iPhoto to delete it, not the Finder. To get completely rid of the video, empty the iPhoto Trash and empty afterwards the Trash in the Dock.

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