Question / Help Is there any way to salvage a corrupted mp4 file?

truffleshuffle03

truffleshuffle03

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I figure it's a lost cause but it's just a shot in the dark. I just spent about 4 hours recording some great game footage and probably one of my best every round on rising storm 2 when obs crashed just when I went to save. I really want this footage but I figure it's no use as nothing will open the file that I have tried.
 
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DeMoN

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Why you didnt take the warning about mp4 in OBS serious? It even told you that MP4s arent restorable and you should capture into mkv instead.. (mkv is a much better container anyway..
 
truffleshuffle03

truffleshuffle03

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DeMoN said:
Why you didnt take the warning about mp4 in OBS serious? It even told you that MP4s arent restorable and you should capture into mkv instead.. (mkv is a much better container anyway..
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well for one I don't have anything that plays mkv and my editing software does not support mkv either.
 
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DeMoN

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Then get better software? :P
But OBS even didnt forget the bad windows timeline software and offers a remuxing to mp4 in its menu.
And that was told to you in this warning too!

That the windows timeline software the most ones have terrible decoder and encoders is nothing new, but what kind of sad video player do you use which cant play mkv container? xD
 
Boildown

Boildown

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There's no way to recover it that anyone has ever found. Sorry. Use flv or mkv in the future, and use the built-in tool to losslessly remux to mp4 for playback or editing.
 
truffleshuffle03

truffleshuffle03

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DeMoN said:
Then get better software? :P
But OBS even didnt forget the bad windows timeline software and offers a remuxing to mp4 in its menu.
And that was told to you in this warning too!

That the windows timeline software the most ones have terrible decoder and encoders is nothing new, but what kind of sad video player do you use which cant play mkv container? xD
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Its more of a editiong softwar than video player. My editing computer is down right now so I am forced to use a free software until I get it back.
 
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DeMoN

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free software has normally better decoder and encoder than paid windows timeline software.
See OBS with its x264 Encoder. All the windows timeline software only have the much worse mainconcept h.264 with almost no settings at all and just bitrate fixed encoding, while free software like MeGUI, Shotcut, Avisynth, Handbrake, they all have x264 and are free and can read mkv sources.
With Linux you even get timeline software beside on shotcut which work together with ffmpeg and x264.
 
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TryHD

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The software you mentioned there is open source. Free closed source software is normaly garbage in the video encoding/editing segment.
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

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Boildown said:
There's no way to recover it that anyone has ever found. Sorry. Use flv or mkv in the future, and use the built-in tool to losslessly remux to mp4 for playback or editing.
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Actually, it is hard to recover 100% of mp4 data, especially if you recording multi-track and samples number varies during interleaving.

As for mp4 durability and other stuff: Stopping recording never ends.
 
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