please, need help with video that won't play

[jessy123]

I have a bunch of old videos (2013) and none of them will play in windows media or vlc

I'm sure they were taken on some kind of old cell phone. I am wondering if there is some way I can get them to play before discarding them. any help would be most appreciated!

I know very little about this, but I do know enough to check the codec info....(thanks so much in advance)

this is the codec information

[Attachment 61889 - Click to enlarge]

[ProWo]

Post one of this videos here

[jagabo]

VLC shouldn't have any problem playing AVC video and AAC audio in MP4. Yes, we'll need to see a sample.

[jessy123]

Gosh i hope, if you are able to get it to work, it's not embarrassing!

But, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! YOU FOLKS ARE THE BEST FOR HELPING!

[DB83]

Others may disagree. But that video appears to be D.O.A.


There is a header but then many bytes with zero data with the affect that the first frame is not seekable.

[jessy123]

Brilliant.

You're awesome for doing this.

Thank you so much!

[ProWo]

@094.mp4
This is not a video file.
The file contains a video header information, but the rest is garbage.
The file cannot be played or repaired.

[jagabo]

I got the same thing, a valid mp4 header but invalid data where the video and audio streams should be.

[jessy123]

You are all awesome.

Your feedback was so helpful since I have a bunch of these that I was afraid to clear...thank you all so much