Strange playback trouble with some avi files

I downloaded a whole season of a tv show in avi format (mpeg layer 3, 48khz, 29.97 fps). Most of the files play fine, but several of them seem corrupt in a way I've never seen before.
They don't generate an error message ... but they stop playing for several seconds at a time, the audio goes off or out of sync, and the entire picture comes and goes, in a way that I can only describe as a mix of pixelation, jpeg-like edge artifacts, and acid trip-like traces and afterimages. Needless to say, it's hard to watch.
I tried exporting the movies from QT pro. No help. And of course I restarted quicktime several times. Other movies continue to play fine.
Any thoughts? Is it possible to fix these files or are they gone?

The format of file you gave is just for audio part, you didn't give us what kind of codec the .avi file have?
And it's nothing to do with QuickTime Pro I cam assume you that.
It probably has broken inside the .avi file somewhere.

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