Fixing Corrupt Video (frames)

[byteshare]

My issues is from time to time when trying to edit video and/or encode video either the editor can't see the full range of the file, and usually this means either the encoder will crash or it will finish prematurely.

I'm not sure how to identify the damage in the file, but from everything I read online people point to damage in the file. I know VLC has error correction, so it will play these files without issue, but what I'm hoping for is someone can point me to the right software or the right steps to restore my files so I can edit them and re-encode them.

I've search the issue but I find it difficult to get meaningful results in a search engine.

:thanks:

[StainlessS]

I'm not using latest VLC, and thought that it was quite badly susceptible to any damage at all (at least the version that I'm using is).
Most error resilient player that I'm aware of is PotPlayer, also has video capture mode. Might need to seek/jump to frame and record in pieces
if some damage is non recoverable.

[foxyshadis]

Remuxing with mkvmerge or mp4box will usually throw up errors when it finds the damaged part of the video, but that only shows container errors, not content errors. Decoding with ffmpeg is even better:

ffmpeg -i yourfile.avi -f null nul

That'll barf up any errors present in your files.

[raffriff42]

I've search the issue but I find it difficult to get meaningful results in a search engine...Yeah, the results are full of spam. OK I have a few threads here that may help you.

This: Trying to Fix a Huge Corrupt .avi File! (http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/267852-Trying-to-Fix-a-Huge-Corrupt-avi-File!/page2) (videohelp.com)

And this: Help please, large video corrupt (https://encodingtalk.com/threads/help-please-large-video-corrupt.1364/) (EncodingTalk.com)

In this one, a user successfully recovers a file with a combination of methods from the other threads:
Recover FRAPS video? (https://encodingtalk.com/threads/recover-fraps-video.1573/) (EncodingTalk.com)