need to repair mp4(and jpeg) file..

[glen_s]

I was on vacation and was using my Sony DSC M1 camera, which was showing low battery, but this is usually not a problem, just use it sparingly and you can often squeeze a few extra pictures and some short video clips from it.

Except this time, and as luck would have it, they are pictures and video of my youngest 2 girls catching their first fish. I took a few stills and they showed fine on the cameras lcd, and also a few short clips. However when I went to view them later on the camera after I got back to civilization and recharged it none of the cameras pictures or video would show up. The files were there with what looked like the proper file sizes so I downloaded them to my laptop. One jpeg shows up on a preview screen when showing thumbnails but will not load. The others dont show anything, same with the mp4 files, even though the files are there and the sizes look ok.

I am assuming that some header information is missing or something like that. At the least I'd like to recover the jpegs, I thought they would be easier but everything I've tried has yielded no results. The mp4 files I would really like to get, as your kids first fish is a special moment. This one especially because my 7 yr old hooked a 2lb trout, which is a monster in this particular creek, and was hanging on to the rod for dear life fighting the fish and the current while I was catching it on video.

So, anyone know of good utilities that may recover all or some of these files? Or a place that will do it for me? These are special enough to me I'll pay someone to do it if there is no utility out there that will do it. I recall reading some time back about an mp4 utility that would at least let me get the video out of the files, which is better than nothing, but I can't find any info on it.

thanks in advance

[Krispy Kritter]

Have you tried reading the memory card from another device? Chances are the files are corrupt on the media and likely unsalvageable.