Best tool to fix corrupted videos?

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ricardocastilho

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#289598 15-Sep-2021 16:11

Hi all,

I am trying to fix some videos taken from a GoPro camera (mp4) that was lost due to a hard disk format (quick).

I was able to restore all videos but I am not being very successful in fixing the videos that were restored but corrupted.

Any idea about a good tool that can fix the corrupted videos?

Thanks a lot

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#2778838 15-Sep-2021 16:15

Restore from backup?

Not sure you can add in "missing" data.

You could try and put it through an encode software of ffmpg etc, and see if their error handling can give you something better?

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#2778891 15-Sep-2021 16:26

Hi,

The videos were already restored and the sizes look fine, however, all videos are corrupted.

With the videos in hand, I was wondering what the best tool now to fix the video and make it playable.

Thanks

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#2778894 15-Sep-2021 16:34

Depends how serious the issues are. VLC player is good at playing back partially corrupted files.

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#2778895 15-Sep-2021 16:36

Another option might be upload to YouTube and see if some of YouTube's uber transcoding magic deals with it.

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#2778896 15-Sep-2021 16:37

Try VLC and tell us how bad it looks in that player.

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#2778899 15-Sep-2021 16:44

Hi, I have tried but the videos do not play using the fix video functionality.

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#2778900 15-Sep-2021 16:46

ricardocastilho:

Hi,

The videos were already restored and the sizes look fine, however, all videos are corrupted.

Thanks

Is the HDD NTFS?

Just because it says the files are restored doesn't mean they are, if you restore the Master file table it will tell you all the files are fine, but the data may be totally gone....

Can you move and copy the files off the drive???,

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#2778903 15-Sep-2021 16:54

Hi There,

Yes, it was an SSD previous using NFTS and format in NFTS (quick) by accident.

I can copy the files between disks and they seem to be taking the reasonable copy time when in process.

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#2778948 15-Sep-2021 18:13

Do they play at all? or skip parts? of colours wrong/blocky?

My previous comment was noting you should look to have at least 1 backup in place. You have done data restoration, which as you can see doesn't always work.

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#2779063 15-Sep-2021 23:51

When you restored them, did you restore them to a different disk?

Restoring to the same disk will destroy data.

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#2779085 16-Sep-2021 07:09

You could try transcoding them in Handbrake. That's pretty much the standard tool for changing size / quality / resolution, I've been using it on and off for years.

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#2779269 16-Sep-2021 11:41

Hi guys,

I am going to try handbrake.

The situation was that one of my friends formated a hard disk (ssd-ntfs) full of mp4 video from a GoPro camera.

With this disk in my hands, I manage to restore using different software what I believe to be all deleted videos.

Both restorations using different software are on different hard disks. Things seem to be fine except for the fact that I can not play or fix the mp4 flies.

Thanks for all help yet

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#2779412 16-Sep-2021 15:43

Sounds like you haven't restored them at all then.

Suggest you make copies of the "restored files" and then use handbreak ffmpg etc to try and process the copies.

I'm also still not sure what is and isn't actually working?

You may have restored, random 1s & 0s from the SSD and then named them as the abc.mp4, but they are just full of rubbish...

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#2779925 17-Sep-2021 14:54

Hi There,

I am not being able to open my files in Handbreak, that is the message that I am getting.

By the way, is there any recovery software that you guys think that I should be using? I used Wondershare Recoverit and Filmora.

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#2779933 17-Sep-2021 15:01

sigh...

https://ffmpeg.org/

As i've asked a few times... what makes you say they are corrupt? I'm thinking they are not recovered at all, and you just have file names recovered with random 1s and 0s.

Suggest you try command line tools like ffmpeg.

But i'd be suggesting the files are unrecoverable, if you need them recovered, take the hard drive to an expert (don't try to do anything else with the drive that was formatted).

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