Genaldinho

Hey guys sup, Im new to the forum :D

anyways the other day me and my mates recorded a video on my mates samsung g600 phone, after recording the video I began to transfer the file from the phone to my acer laptop, anyways as I was transferring the file I just remembered the harddrive was full, the problem was I had already cut and pasted the file from the phone to the laptop so since the harddrive was full the whole file didnt transfer to my laptop, the file was around 42 mb or so in size but only 32mb transffered to my laptop, I tried to play the file but it wouldnt play, I tried many programs, like "All Media Fixer" << absolute garbage doesnt fix videos at all, vlc player plays like 5 seconds of blank video and no audio, I need help, I heard about headers and researched into them but am still confused and lost, I really need help and would be so greatful if someone could fix the file, I recieved 32mb of it so naturally Im thinking I should be able to watch some of it,

I've uploaded the file and hope someone can help, here's the file;

http://www.zshare.net/download/59985868d9617da0/

TJ Belfiore

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pofolks

I've tried playing itwith MpcStar. It has all codecs to play everything. It usually plays partially downloaded video files where other media players can't.
It will not play. The video file is probably corrupted.

pofolks

I also ran it through Mediainfo. Here is what I got:

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Here is what I should have got:

Capture1.jpg

As you can see there are no video and audio streams. In general information
there is no bit rate and it shows no duration. This means that the header information for the file is corrupted. Excluding anything short of a miracle this video file will never play.

Alter-Divide

Your video is mostly corrupted. I doubt there are workarounds on that.

I'm downloading it right now on 20%. It doesn't play on my media player classic although that could be because its still incompete. I'll try to download the whole file and see if it works.

Genaldinho

@pofolks, thanks a ton for your effort mate!.

@Alter-Divide, did it work or are you still downloading mate?, also pofolks if I give you a working mp4 file of the same type cant you make a new header or use a good header from a working similar file to fix it?

thanks a ton for your time guys, really appreciate it

TJ Belfiore

Just out of curiosity, WHERE did you get this mysterious broken video? You said your camera.. are you sure?

Genaldinho

From my mates Samsung g600 mobile phone, why?

TJ Belfiore

Just curious because usually videos directly from a video camera/camera don't get corrupt, you should ask him if his memory card might be corrupted or some settings have been tweaked - This might explain the corruption on your file.

Alter-Divide

Sorry I wasn't able to finish downloading since I was charging my laptop and was doing something else. I'll finish downloading it now.

Genaldinho

@Undocked Windy, are you sure you read my first post of this topic correctly, the whole of the file didnt transfer, there was 42mb but because of my harddrive being full only 32 mb ended up transferring so that means I didnt get all of the video file, naturally this must've caused a corrupt header, and I was hoping someone could fix it for me, his memory card is fine since I emptied my new harddrive and bluetoothed a file to my pc and that one worked fine.

@Alter-Divide, thanks a ton mate your a legend!

Alter-Divide

sorry double posted

Alter-Divide

Sorry it didn't work for me. However, since you used a memory card, there is a chance that the file is still somewhere in it.

Try plugging his cellphone to your computer I believe it would have a USB mode for the memory card.

Try to look from there. Also try using Recuva. It is a program for restoring deleted files.

I'm not sure if this will work but there is nothing to lose.

Genaldinho

Again Alter-Divide you've been a angel man, thanks for your effort and I'll take into account the memory card tip, thanks again everyone, if anyone does fix it please post in this topic, thanks :D

Mcninjaguy

You should have at least 15% free space on your hard drive for it function at full speed

Do a defrag with Auslogics Defrag
http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-D...dlPid=11000862

Clean up old restore points too
right click on C: drive
properties
disk cleanup
go to the second tab and delete old restore points

blah789

I asked on doom9 if anyone knew anything about this. Read my links to understand more about this.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=147078

Genaldinho

@Mcninjaguy, yh thanks for the tip man.

@blah789, I've checked the thread no ones replied, if you can fix headers I'll be amazed, I can give you a good working file similar to my truncated one if that would be of any help?