Kayaker
20th November 2008, 12:04
I've got a seriously broken AVI.
Usual reindex tools don't work because it's missing its header, not just its index as usual with broken AVI.
I was recording from TV capture to AVI and then got a power cut.
The recording program apparently leaves all header with plenty zero bytes, and then, when it finishes recording, writes the beggining of the file with the header and also the final index, thing that never happened because the power cut.
So I got all zero bytes in the beggining (in the usal header where you can usually see the strings "RIFF", "hdrlavih8", "strlstrh8", "LIST" , etc ) and then all the chunks.
I can see them because the "magic numbers" displayed as ASCII as "AVI1" and "PICAVI".
Is there a tool than can scan (as for example Pkzipfix does scanning each byte) the file for elementary parts ?
Thanks.
Usual reindex tools don't work because it's missing its header, not just its index as usual with broken AVI.
I was recording from TV capture to AVI and then got a power cut.
The recording program apparently leaves all header with plenty zero bytes, and then, when it finishes recording, writes the beggining of the file with the header and also the final index, thing that never happened because the power cut.
So I got all zero bytes in the beggining (in the usal header where you can usually see the strings "RIFF", "hdrlavih8", "strlstrh8", "LIST" , etc ) and then all the chunks.
I can see them because the "magic numbers" displayed as ASCII as "AVI1" and "PICAVI".
Is there a tool than can scan (as for example Pkzipfix does scanning each byte) the file for elementary parts ?
Thanks.