HELP Repairing .RSV Video File from Sony Camera

[Lumingming]

what happened is...

1. it turned into Result.MOV but good thing the audio is working but without display
2. I renamed my .RSV file to .MP4 and still the same Result.MOV also audio still working without display. I tried using VLC (Audio is playing) but it said Codec not Supported.
HELP ((((

[ProWo]

Post a mediainfo report (text mode) from this video here.

[ProWo]

You can try to repair the file with VLC.
Open the VLC player, click on Media, click on convert/save,
drag your rsv file into the window, click convert, enter the target file and click start.
Wait until the conversion is finished.
Check the new mp4 file at the destination.


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[Lumingming]

thanks for the reply. its still the same.. there's still no display, only Audio, and the file size shrank from 29gb to 149mb. my bad for not mentioning the details.

here's my video details from properties.

This is the same video file type 10bit H.264 Slog 3 footage from the Sony A7IV. The >RSV file doesn't have any video details, so i just based it on another video that was on the SD card, which was fine and had the same setting.

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[ProWo]

The try another way.
Download untrunc (with gui) for your OS (32 Bit or 64 Bit) here:
https://github.com/anthwlock/untrunc/releases/tag/latest

Extract the zip and start untrunc-gui.exe

Rename your .RSV file to .MP4.

Drag this broken mp4 file into the truncated file field.
Drag a working mp4 video form the same camera with the same settings into the reference file field.
Then click Repair.


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[Lumingming]

It looks like it's almost there. There's already a preview, but the video isn't moving. I'm using VLC Player, but when I try Windows Media Player or QuickTime, i got these error notes.


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[ProWo]

Retry with untrunc-gui.
Click on settings and check skip unknown.
Then retry the repair.


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[Lumingming]

still the same. is there any way to fix this

[ProWo]

still the same. is there any way to fix this

Load the rsv file into a hex editor and post the image here.

[Lumingming]

Is this what you mean? Sorry, I don't know the hex editor. But here are the notes after I repaired it using UntruncGUI.


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And then, this is the setting you taught me.


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These are the notes using the .mp4 file that I renamed from .RSV.


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[ProWo]

Is this what you mean? Sorry, I don't know the hex editor. But here are the notes after I repaired it using UntruncGUI.


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This is a picture from a mp4 video loaded into a hex editor.


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In this sample I've used HxD, a free hex editor.
You can download it here:

https://mh-nexus.de/downloads/HxDPortableSetup.zip

BTW:
The info in your pic above looks good. Untrunc seems to have found video data, 33min 55sec long

[Lumingming]

Thanks.. here you go.

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But the video still won't play—it just stays frozen, though there's a preview. However, my reference video plays just fine, and they have the same settings.

[ProWo]

Thanks.. here you go.
But the video still won't play—it just stays frozen, though there's a preview. However, my reference video plays just fine, and they have the same settings.

Post a pic from the good reference mp4 in the hex editor too.

[Lumingming]

Here you go.


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[ProWo]

Here you go.


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Open the rsv file too (both files should be open).
Select the good mp4.
Select all from offset 0 to offset C0 (12 rows) and click Edit (in the menu), copy.
Select the rsv file now.
Point to offset 0 (first byte), click edit, past insert.
Then click file, save as (save as new mp4 file, so the source remains untouched).
Close both files with the X below (top, right, NOT toppest X), then close Hxd.

Repeat the untrunc action with the new created mp4 as bad file.

btw:
The good.mp4 contains video? It seems to be empty.

[Lumingming]

i'm still trying to figure it out. lol

i've shot the good.mp4 video with lens cup on i didn't expose the correct way for Slog 3 but it has the same setting. is it affecting the video details?

[DecA]

HELP

I am developing my own utility for recovering unfinalized video files. And I am interested in testing it on real cases. Could you try to recover your file with it? The utility is commercial, but it can save the first five minutes of the recovered video as a demonstration. If these five minutes are recovered correctly, then you can know for sure that the file can be recovered. Link.

[ProWo]

i'm still trying to figure it out. lol

i've shot the good.mp4 video with lens cup on i didn't expose the correct way for Slog 3 but it has the same setting. is it affecting the video details?

Yes of course, as good.mp4 you should take a video that corresponds as closely as possible to bad.rsv

[Lumingming]

got you. but does it have to be the same duration too?