Corrupt Wedding Video - Anyone Willing to Assist? [bounty]

[SineDave]

Hi All,

I've searched the forum pretty exhaustively searching for a way to repair the main video of my wedding from 5 years ago. Unfortunately, only SUPER was able to do a conversion and the result didn't look good and had no audio. As a result, i'm hoping someone is interested in earning a $50 bounty via PayPal to fix the file. Ideally it should have audio.

File info:

SUPER © v2013.bld.59+Recorder (2013/12/18)
Multimedia Analysis Box  by  http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Detailed Analysis of:
C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\tape 1 06.avi
Format : AVI 
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave 
Commercial name : DV 
File size : 1.07 GiB 
Duration : 8s 809ms 
Overall bit rate : 1 046 Mbps 

[Video] ID : 0 
Format : DV 
Codec ID : dvsd 
Codec ID/Hint : Sony 
Duration : 8s 809ms 
Bit rate : 1 005 Mbps 
Width : 720 pixels 
Height : 480 pixels 
Display aspect ratio : 3:2 
Frame rate : 29.970 fps 
Standard : NTSC 
Color space : YUV 
Compression mode : Lossy 
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 97.022 
Stream size : 1.03 GiB (96%)

PM me if you're interested and i'll send you a download link to check out the file (1.1GB).

Thanks!

Dave

[davexnet]

Could you post a small sample to whet our appetite?

[poisondeathray]

Do you have the original tapes ? Can you contact the videographer ?

[aedipuss]

if that's the only file you have you are out of luck. 1gb of dv should be ~ 5 minutes of dv video not the 8 seconds listed. the file is most likely corrupted trash.

[jagabo]

Try opening your file with VirtualDub. Is it all there?

[Selur]

If super can handle it, nearly every other tool which uses libav decoders should be able to handle the file.

[SineDave]

Super outputs about 5:03 of footage, which is what I'd expect.

VirtualDub errors out on opening the file, as do about 5-10 other utilities I've tried.

I'll send a dropbox link out to all those who've PM'ed me.

[hech54]

First thing to do is get rid of SUPER and do a virus scan.

[FireRouteR]

Quick question Dave,

No other tool is able to preview the original damaged file? Did you tested any video repair tool like MP4repair.org or Grau's one? Best of luck!

--Fire

[SineDave]

JVRaines was able to fix the file. Thank you to all who PM'ed.

[jagabo]

So, what was wrong with it?

[bendixG15]

....... As a result, i'm hoping someone is interested in earning a $50 bounty via PayPal to fix the file.



Dave

You said he fixed it. Did you send him the 50 bucks?

[SineDave]

Absolutely Hopefully he can post here to confirm.

[bendixG15]

Then I say ... You are a gentleman