my videos flicks

[jamali]

hello

I have recovered my digital video (mpeg) files (from My deleted hard drive) whom I took them from a DV sony camera.

Now I see similar problems in all of the files. I mean when I play , there are frequent (earthquake flicks) along the film.

when I analyze them in an editing software there is not a visible damage or interruption during the timeline ?

Who knows how can I fix the problem?

Thanks.
Jamali

[Bjs]

Welcome jamali

When you say recovered ... hope that's not from the same drive and back ... that may contribute to the problem

Files recovered from bad drive to good drive

Some recovery programs aren't as discrete with file recovery which can cause what appears to be discontinuity even thou the file appears in tact.

Run active @ hard disk monitor ... yes, but just check drives status ... below 75% can be a symptom caused by drive wearing out.

Make sure files recovered are not being played back from the drive where files where recovered from ... just incase

You didn't say what program was used in the recovery process ?

1: PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x
2: EASEUS Deleted File Recovery
3: FreeUndelete

For anything ultimately serious then Active@ UNDELETE... cheap at $39 ... but when others fail this may be last resort before considering the files gone forever

[jamali]

thanks for your help
so

may It being fixed it during a conversion?

thanks again.
jamali

[Bjs]

Fix during conversion ... possibly, but the best results come from having an "adequate" source ... ie, having been recovered

You really need to make sure this stutter isn't something contained within the recovered files or being played back from a drive which may be showing its age

If these files are the best available after the recovery process then stutter can only be filtered or smoothed ... but that could be a fair amount of fiddling about ... the results ... well give it a try and see ... maybe you'll have success without too much trouble

PS:

I would try at least one of these files on another system ... if it plays fine ... then I suspect something is a miss with the system where the files where recovered from and would not use this system for any editing purpose till the problem is located.

[jagabo]

Copy (not move) the files to another location. Does the new file have the same problem in the same locations?

I suspect you just have a playback problem. Try a different player like MPCHC or VLC. Those have built in source filters and decoders so they don't have to rely on DirectShow installed filters.

Another possibility: if you drive has a bad block somewhere Windows may have reverted to PIO mode for hard drive access. Use Device Manager to check the IDE channel's transfer mode. Turn DMA back on if you can.

[jamali]

hello

I have Tested the files on the other hard drive. There wasn't any differences in playing and there was the same flicks (in location on the film and even counts).
The flicks occur when I play with (windows media player) and (Real player). But (nero showtime) reduces flicks and converts them to checker area.

so what should I do?

[lordsmurf]

Large files don't recover well, especially from fragmented drives.

[jagabo]

The problem with recovering deleted files is that large files may appear in several discontinuous areas of the hard drive. Undelete programs often have difficulties in determining which parts belonged to which file. So what you have is unrelated junk from other files in the middle of your big video files.

If you didn't do an in-place undelete (ie, if you recovered the files by copying to another drive, without changing anything on the original drive) you might be able to go back to the original drive and manually guide the undelete program to the correct sections. This will be difficult to do with video files though.

Otherwise, all you can do is cut out the bad parts of your recovered files.