How to fix/repair a AVI video without a header?

[BlooderButcher]

Hi!

Well, recently my computer here restarted due a small power failure and after restarting it the 'fsck' from Linux checked the filesystem for inconsistencies and sadly I lost the first blocks from three big AVI movies I had.

I checked the AVI files with an hex-editor and sadly I lost the headers and maybe two..five clusters, but I still think it's possible to repair the videos. I think I lost few initial seconds...

I need to say I don't know the audio/video codecs, bitrate, total time, etc.

So, I ask. Is it possible to build a new header from scratch? And treat the rest of the AVI file as video data like a stream or raw data?

And concatenate the header with the AVI file using a simple 'copy' command in DOS or 'cat' in Linux?

I tried using some tools like DivFix, Digital Video Repair...

If my english sounds bad I say my sincere sorries as I'm brazilian and I speak and mainly my thoughts are in portuguese language (You know, my brain/mind) But I think it's pretty cool. :P

Bye!!!

[Soopafresh]

I think you're out of luck on this

[themaster1]

video fixer is your solution

[[_chef_]]

Try with any VirtualDub version.

[BlooderButcher]

I thank everybody for the answers! 8)

but I think I found the solution here in this forum topic.

Steps to repair a partially downloaded .avi that has a missing header.

See ya!!!