'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

[Brian Lohnes]

Long story short:

1.) Shot a ton of video at Loring

2.) Video freaking disappeared from the SD card

3.) bought recovery program

4.) Got the files back

5.) Files will not play Quicktime "does not recognize" them. Tried to test upload one to youtube and got a message about codecs being wrong.

Can I fix these or are they all junk?

[Barry Donovan]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

did it give a suffix to the file after a dot?
is it a raw file?

the recovery program should have helped with this.

[Memphis]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Download VLC, if it is playable it will play.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

That's a tough question. Don't you have a decent video editing program like pinnacle or something?

[Memphis]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Have you had trouble in the past playing video files from your camera? I am guessing it may not have recovered the entire file and comes up corrupt when you try to play. VLC at least in the past would play corrupt files like that, if it plays I would use a video converting program like Super.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Seems like epic failure is imminent.


"VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Box the whole thing up and ship it out west to the AV kids :-\

[squirrel]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Files have a name and an extension: name.ext

When you recovered the files, did the recovery program include the proper extension when it named them? in other words, do the file names include the .mov or .mp4 extension? If not, rename the files to add it, and see if they play.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Jim they have the proper .mov extension

files are named file0100.mov (for example)

[Ron Ward]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Brian,

Just out of curiosity... Is your video camera a Sony?

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[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

It's a cheap ass Aiptek jobbie

[dieselgeek]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

It's a cheap ass Aiptek jobbie

You're not screwed.

".undf" is a value that's returned when most video programs cannot find file information stored in the file header.

You got the movies back, but the program you are using to open them, can't tell how to play them. The info that says "I'm THIS type of file at THIS bitrate" is not there.


You need one of the programs that inspects the file data and decides for itself, VLC should do this. If not, do you have a short one you can email me? I use Vegas Video and it's usually able to rewrite video file headers. All you really need to do is convert it from .mov to .mov and that would fix the problem,

-Scott

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Scott, when I get home from the drags tonight, I'll shoot you a quick one to see if you can make heads or tails of it.

Thanks!

Brian

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

Beags, the files are larger so they are "there"..I think. ???

[IRONHEAD]

Re: 'Puter geeks....am I screwed or not?

do they play through the camera screen?