First Time poster; Corrupted AVI file after recovery.

[StormbringerGT]

Hey Guys, I'm in a bit of a bind here. I had some video files I recorded, and were going to put together for a youtube video for my channel.

Unfortunately the OS crashed and I couldn't do much with it (in hindisght I could have...). So I formatted and reinstalled. I recovered the files (dang program would only allow 1GB of recovery) however I can't play any of the AVI files. In windows media player they just bring back an error and in FLC player the player starts sits there for a second and nothing, never plays.

I have a video I can upload somewhere if someone wants to take a look, and if it helps I have videos form the same exact camera, that might help with recovery. I'll updatehere when I figureout a place I can upload them to.

I've googled and tried a lot of fixes, for the past day now so reaching out to help here was my last resort.

Uploading to drop box now, the corrupted file and a source file. Anyone that helps will get a shoutout in the finished video!

Heres the drop box links:
Corrupted

Source

[davexnet]

If it's less than 30MB, you can upload it right here to the thread.

[StormbringerGT]

If it's less than 30MB, you can upload it right here to the thread.

When I said new I meant new!

Thanks for the tip, how would I do that?

And I figured it out! Thanks!

[davexnet]

The source is a good file straight out of the camera? And the corrupted is a damaged encode? Or the corrupted is
damaged camera (source) file?

Perhaps you should try this tool:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/Video-Repair-Tool

[StormbringerGT]

[QUOTE=davexnet;2176764]The source is a good file straight out of the camera? And the corrupted is a damaged encode? Or the corrupted is
damaged camera (source) file?

Perhaps you should try this tool:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/Video-Repair-Tool[/QUOTE]

The source is a goo dfile straight from the camera. The Corrupted one was the same type of file, from the same camera, but the drive it was on got formatted then that file got recovered.

Yeah I tried that tool and it did not work for me.

[davexnet]

Sorry to hear you lost your data. Pretty hit and miss when you reinstall the OS.

Give that tool a try, there is a free demo mode. With this tool, you feed it the damaged file, and you also feed it a good file
from the same camera. It reads the "good" file to figure out how to repair the damaged one.

EDIT did you feed it a good file?
EDIT 2 - I see it supposed to be an mjpg AVI file. I don't think that the tool works on them.
Have you checked out the other tools in the repair section here?

[StormbringerGT]

Okay ran that program again and it says it repaired it. But in the repaired folder I have a 0 bytes version of it that won't play.

[davexnet]

Sounds like it didn't work. Don't know what else to suggest, perhaps contact the program author,
I've heard he's receptive to customer issues; it gives him a chance to improve his program.

[StormbringerGT]

Anyone else able to help me with this? I'd hate to have to try and reshoot it.

[aedipuss]

open the corrupted one with hex editor. there is nothing in the file but random garbage, nothing was recovered.

[StormbringerGT]

open the corrupted one with hex editor. there is nothing in the file but random garbage, nothing was recovered.

Blah. Thanks for taking a look though. So they are gone then. Ah well. I do have an HD camera to reshoot the tracks.

Thanks for taking a look!

[jagabo]

I agree with aedipus, there is no AVI header or any of the usual chunk headers anywhere in the file.

[StormbringerGT]

I agree with aedipus, there is no AVI header or any of the usual chunk headers anywhere in the file.

I would assume that adding a header wouldnt fix it either huh? Ah well. Time to reshoot! Thanks for looking and helping!

[jagabo]

I agree with aedipus, there is no AVI header or any of the usual chunk headers anywhere in the file.

I would assume that adding a header wouldnt fix it either huh?

No. Because the body of the AVI isn't there either (as evidenced by the fact that other identifying bits aren't present in the rest of the video). Just junk from some other file.

Of course, your other files could be different.

[StormbringerGT]

I agree with aedipus, there is no AVI header or any of the usual chunk headers anywhere in the file.

I would assume that adding a header wouldnt fix it either huh?

No. Because the body of the AVI isn't there either (as evidenced by the fact that other identifying bits aren't present in the rest of the video). Just junk from some other file.

Of course, your other files could be different.

Yeah I would doubt it, besides if only some are recoverable I'd have to reshoot everything anyway. Ah well, I really do appreciate the help guys!