Hi all,
I found an old folder of video from 2008. I vaguely remember authoring a DVD with these video files. I can't find the original source video, though, so I am hoping to work with... Whatever it is that I've found.
Some files have the file extension .avi and open in VLC. Windows Explorer indicate the video length is 50 minutes but when open in VLC it's only about 20 minutes. Most of the files, however, will not open in VLC and do not show video length in Windows Explorer.
Some files have the file extensions .001 and .002.
Most of the files are 3.90 gb in size.
I opened one of the files that play in VLC in VirtualDub and got the following warning:
"AVI: Index not found or damaged -- reconstruction via file scan.
AVI: Keyframe flag reconstruction was not specified in open options and the video stream is not a known keyframe-only type. Seeking in the video stream may be extremely slow."
Also including a screenshot of what I got when I opened the file in Gspot.
Not sure what next steps would be here. Would love to recover this video / make it playable.
Thank you,
Moomoo2
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Try to remux with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg.exe -i "input.avi" -c copy "output.mkv"
You can also try to join the avi chunks (001, 002) with Easy Video Joiner https://qpdownload.com/easy-video-joiner/Last edited by ProWo; 21st Sep 2020 at 15:19.
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Hi ProWo,
Thanks for looking at this. Remux works on the files that previously could play, outputting ~20 minute long video files.
The rest of the files (.001, .002) will not open so I am not sure Easy Video Joiner will help. I uses Mediainfo on one of the files that doesn't play... Image attached.
DV-dif? Can these be recovered?
Moomoo2 -
What was the original app that you captured these files with?
I have seen these .001, .002... type files before, but it has probably been 15 years, so don't remember the app now.
That'll probably lead you to which codec (Canopus?) and possibly tool (Canopus?) that can piece them back together FIRST before decoding.
Scott -
I'm pretty sure that the 001 extension indicates that the file was captured but never combined with the other files. That is why you are getting the prompt to reindex the file. I would make a copy of the 001 files, rename them to AVI, reindex, and then combine in your favorite NLE (or VirtualDub). I doubt that you need to install an y new codecs because that is almost certainly not your problem.
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I have seen these .001, .002... type files before, but it has probably been 15 years, so don't remember the app now.
A simple copy /B command should get the same result.
Code:copy /B "input.001"+"input.002"+"input.003" "output.avi"
By the way, I just found out recently (while reporting an issue with the data recovery software R-Studio specifically related to the “raw” recovery of AVI files) that AVI files have a size field at the very beginning of their header. So if you open an AVI file in a hexadecimal editor you should see something like this :
Code:5249464644E31C2D415649204C495354 7E0100006864726C6176696838000000 409C0000000000000000000010090000 17FD0100000000000200000000000000 20020000900100000000000000000000 00000000000000004C495354C0000000
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No, abolibibelot, it was NOT a file splitter app. It was from a capture app. Remember, in the early days of DV, the AVI spec was still v1.0, not OpenDML 2.0 style (and was also primarily Type1, not Type2). That meant it couldn't grow larger than 4GB. So a 1hr tape (=~13GB) would have to be captured and saved as segments to get around that limitation.
Scott
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