Really weird video file problem

[alexdogg]

a couple of months ago i recorded a video file using my hp webcam and my laptop.... before i stopped the recording, it said it was 15 minutes long, so i stopped it and the result was a 4 second avi file thats 3.62 GB, it only shows the first 4 secs i tried playing it on different players, even burned it to dvd and its still only the first 4 seconds long, i want to fix it and retrieve the rest of the recording.

tried again for 21 minutes and the result is a 1.14 minutes long video file thats 5.06 GB. please dont tell me its the settings because its recorded at 320x240 at 24 fps and no audio.

thanks for reading, hope somebody can help

[Baldrick]

Try open it in virtualdub and avidemux and the save as new avi. In virtualdub choose video->direct stream copy and audio->direct stream copy.

And if it wont work give more infromation about the avi. Open it in mediainfo and post then all details here.

[alexdogg]

Try open it in virtualdub and avidemux and the save as new avi. In virtualdub choose video->direct stream copy and audio->direct stream copy.

And if it wont work give more infromation about the avi. Open it in mediainfo and post then all details here.

thanks for the reply tried to open it in virtualdub and it shows the same one and a half minutes,
heres the info from mediainfo


General
Complete name : C:\Users\AJardon\Videos\untitled_20090419_4.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 5.06 GiB
Duration : 1mn 14s
Overall bit rate : 587 Mbps

Video
Format : RGB
Codec ID : RGB
Duration : 1mn 12s
Bit rate : 12.7 Mbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 5.514
Stream size : 110 MiB (2%)

Audio
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Unsigned
Codec ID : 1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1mn 14s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 8 000 Hz
Resolution : 8 bits
Stream size : 579 KiB (0%)
Interleave, duration : 486 ms (14.58 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 1500 ms

once again thanks for your help

[aedipuss]

looks like you forgot to set a codec to save to. the results you show list uncompressed RGB. 500mbps is in the ballpark for rgb and would give you a 2 gb file for 4 seconds. that's probably all there is in that file.

set to encode to a common codec, h264, wmv, divx, or mpeg-2. then filesizes will be manageable and you may get usable output.

[alexdogg]

looks like you forgot to set a codec to save to. the results you show list uncompressed RGB. 500mbps is in the ballpark for rgb and would give you a 2 gb file for 4 seconds. that's probably all there is in that file.

set to encode to a common codec, h264, wmv, divx, or mpeg-2. then filesizes will be manageable and you may get usable output.

true ive tried recording and really huge size, changed codec... thanks a lot for the help