Camera video recovery

[zenekbezdesek]

Hello everyone!
As I did not find any appropriate section for video troubleshooting, i am writing here.
Anyways, so i took a video when i went on vacation, i turned the recoring on, then i let it record for like 5 mins but i didnt pay attention to it. Maybe something got pressed, i dont know, but later on, the video wasnt showing up on the sd card when using the camera. I pluged the SD card in my pc n the video is there. It doesnt play at all though. I tried converting it with pazera free mov to avi converter i believe but it says moov atom is missing. When i play it with gom player it says my system lacks the codec. Here is a log from Gom player if that helps:

Stream 0

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MEDIA TYPE 0:
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[AM_MEDIA_TYPE]
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Stream {E436EB83-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {08E22ADA-B715-45ED-9D20-7B87750301D4}
formattype: TIME_FORMAT_NONE {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 0


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MEDIA TYPE 1:
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[AM_MEDIA_TYPE]
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Stream {E436EB83-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}
subtype: TIME_FORMAT_NONE {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
formattype: TIME_FORMAT_NONE {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 0

And here a MediaInfo log from another video taken with my camera using the same parameters as reference.

Complete name                    : I:\DSCN0653.MOV
Format                           : MPEG-4
Format profile                   : QuickTime
Codec ID                         : qt  
File size                        : 257 MiB
Duration                         : 1mn 53s
Overall bit rate                 : 18.9 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20
Tagged date                      : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20
NCDT                             : NCTG

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 1 frame
Codec ID                         : avc1
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                         : 1mn 53s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 18.8 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 29.970 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.302
Stream size                      : 254 MiB (99%)
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20
Tagged date                      : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20
Color primaries                  : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Transfer characteristics         : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients              : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version                   : Version 4
Format profile                   : LC
Format settings, SBR             : No
Codec ID                         : 40
Duration                         : 1mn 53s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 1.73 MiB (1%)
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20
Tagged date                      : UTC 2013-06-07 17:29:20

Thanks in advance, this video means the world to me.

[Baldrick]

Try first play with vlc media player. Then mpeg streamclip.


If they fail try video repair tool. Try the free trial and see if it can repair anything.

[zenekbezdesek]

I tried it, it didn't really help, here is the report.

Edit: VLC n mpeg streamclip dont work.

[Baldrick]

It doesn't look good...

[zenekbezdesek]

indeed, any suggestions? but at least it recognizes the frame size.

[aedipuss]

upload it to a filesharing site and post a link if you'd like people here to take a shot at it.

[zenekbezdesek]

Kk but it is quite big so it might take me some time to upload since my internet connection isn't too fast. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[Baldrick]

You could upload a few MB from it. Try use makesample and upload 10-50MB.

[zenekbezdesek]

But if its damaged, will it work if i make a sample?

Edit: Here is the file:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_ebjDbkdUL6Wl9rUXNqWnExTlk/edit?usp=sharing

[zenekbezdesek]

Anyone?

[jagabo]

Just on a lark, because I know it has a good demuxer, I tried using MMG to remux the video to an MKV file. It worked! I got a ~4 minute MKV video. The last third or so has a black picture (audio continues) but I think that's because the camera was put in the back of a car with no view. So download MkvToolnix, install it, then run MMG.EXE. Open the MOV file then press Start Muxing. Once you have the MKV file you can remux back to MOV with some MOV muxing tool, if necessary.

I extracted the elementary audio and video streams from the MKV with MkvExtractGUI. Then used Mp4Muxer to mux those into an MP4 file. Be sure to set the frame rate to 29.97 as Mp4Muxer will default to 25 fps.

[zenekbezdesek]

OH my gosh, YOOOOOOOPIEEEE! This is for u Mr. jagabo:


I have no idea how to thank u, thank u so so so so damn much.

[jagabo]

Glad to help out. Just dumb luck really.