Corrupted Avi. Files

[milkboy7989]

Hello everyone,

So here goes the story. I had a couple of school files I needed to put into a CD-R. I inserted the CD-R into the drive and attempted to burn these files onto the CD.

I didn't know that the CD-R already had files on it. The School files were finished burning but when I opened up the CD I could only see the previous files that were on there.

The previous files that were on the CD before the school files were just random video clips, all in the avi. format. Now half of the files on the CD are still fine, they play normally on Windows Media Player. The other half of the files didn't seem to work.

I believed it was a common CD recovery issue so I attempted to recover the lost files, little did I know the files weren't even real avi. files. Here is the part that confuses me. The files that are not playable that come out to say "File Format not supported" do take up space. Some take up 1.6 mb, some take up 700 kb. It confuses me because the files take up space and claim to files yet they do not play.

When I tried using programs to fix the files it said the files were not even true avi. files. They still take up space though. As I looked farther into this problem I came to realize that the hex of the corrupted files seem to be quite different then the actual files that do work.
The good ones had "RIFF LIST or something like that" but the bad ones just had aslasga5s4f6asf15a1f... you know what I mean.

I attempted to fix this by replacing some of the hex codes but then the file comes out to say The specified module cannot be found, which means the file is just screwed up.

I would like to ask if there is any way I can fix these corrupted files. Thanks.

[Krispy Kritter]

If the files were readable and partially playable you may be able to fix them. In this case, the files are completely corrupted. You won't be able to fix them.

[Dr3amKilla]

i hav a .avi video that is about an hour nd a half long nd is corrupted. Whenever i try to use a program such as avi fix, divfix, divfix++, etc. it cuts out all of the bad parts and the video becomes 40minutes long. Is there any program that can actually fix the file because it skips many parts when playing it.

[redwudz]

Dr3amKilla, probably not. But try dropping it in VirtualDub Mod and see if you can do a little better job than those other programs as most of them just rewrite the index. You can scan the video stream for errors, then try to save it out as 'Direct stream copy'. But if you can't scan though the video, the corrupted parts are not likely to be recoverable.

Also try playing it with VLC media player. It does well with corrupted video and can save it out internally. If you can play it, you may be able to save it.

Good luck.