Video stalls during rendering batch file. How can i recover it?

[Master Tape]

Been having this problem for a while now where i render a batch file with FFMpeg, but it can stall at any random point. I just left a file to render overnight and it only had a couple of minutes left to render, but it stopped. So now i have an unplayable MP4 4GB file.

How can i recover this file, so i can just render the last few minutes and splice append them together? As i really dont want to start from scratch again only for the same thing to happen. I really need to get a new CPU.

[videoAI]

few Questions ..

1 - have you tried more forgiving playback tools like VLC?
2 - Can MPC-BE play it?
3 - can Media Info be generated from it?
4 - Have you ran ffprobe on it? Any output?
5 - is the original file damaged towards the end? seek problems, etc ?
6 - what container is it in? Mkv, Mp4?
some containers handle file corruption better than others. [ex: Mkv, Mov]

Tip for future encoding [rendering]:
- Use a GUI, which can retry, skip, continue or close the already
rendered part with proper headers when failures occur.

[Master Tape]

VLC or MPC wont play it.

Media Info isn't generating anything besides this

General
Complete name                            : D:\Video.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                                : 3.72 GiB

Not sure how to use ffprobe.

No, the original file plays fine. It's a 1080i MP4. And is being rendered as an MP4 at 1080p.

Oh the GUI would be handy, and would have saved me alot of hassle before if i knew about it sooner. Thanks for that.

[videoAI]

As for the 4Gb file, don't bother trying to recover it.
IMHO, it is not worth the time and effort. just re-encode
the file ..

Try Clever FFmeg-GUI ..

Another free tip : use FFmpeg 8.x, it is faster ..

Oh the GUI would be handy, and would have saved me alot of hassle. Thanks for that.

[Master Tape]

I'll cut my losses then! Hopefully there'll be no more stalls with the GUI version.

Shame i can't choose libx264 from the drop down menu, it's what i usually use on my batch files. Would x264 (avc) give me the same quality?

Glad they've just released a faster version of FFmpeg, but will need to figure out how to install it, as can't see any installation file in the folder.

[jagabo]

In the future use the "-movflags faststart" option.

<EDIT>
Nevermind, doesn't work.

Use one of the MP4/MOV repair programs. They copy the MOOV atom from a similar good file onto the end of the bad one.
</EDIT>

[videoAI]

My replies ..

Shame i can't choose libx264 from the drop down menu, Would x264 (avc) give me the same quality?
x264 (avc) = libx264
but will need to figure out how to install it
I have a script for that ..
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/396490-clever-FFmpeg-GUI-small-FFmpeg-UI-fully-por...14#post2778514

[Master Tape]

It doesn't allow me to choose the output file, just MKV. Some videos i may upload to Youtube, and they recommend uploading in MP4. Does it matter if i keep them as MKV or would i have to remux them to MP4? For quality and compatibility?

Also when i'm rendering from an AVS file, it deletes the source file (my AVS) after it's done! How can i stop it from doing so?