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  1. Hi, this is my first post so sorry for some errors or something like this.
    My problem is.. I was going to record a video from my laptop webcam using freewebcamrecorder. It was about 30minutes, but i had forgoten to stop recording, and when i stopped it about 2 hours later, the video file was corrupted. Now i cant open this file. Do you have any ideas about how to repair it?
    Any help would be appreciated
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    Likely can't be repaired.

    Try opening the file using MediaInfo and see if the file specs are properly displayed. If not, it's very likely garbage.
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    Have you tried open it with any editor or converter? Like xmedia recode, avidemux, vidcoder.

    WHat format/container did you record in? mp4, avi, ts, wmv, etc?
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  4. I opened file in media info and it displays that the lenght of the video is 1h 37minutes, overall bitrate 5303 and format AVI 4gb, so I think that everything is ok.
    Avidemux unfortunately cant open this file. I managed to recover first minutes and last of the video, using some other tools, but the middle part of video is most important and i cant recover this.
    Any other suggestions?
    And thanks for replies
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    The file is definetly corrupted as the math doesn't add up. You stated that it recorded for over 2 hours, but the run time doesn't reflect that amount of time. Also, as the file apparently stopped at 4GB, I'd say your HDD is FAT32, which has a 4GB file size limit.

    Will it play at all with a media player such as VLC?
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