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Hi everyone,

I've been trying to repair some MOV videos that are corrupted (seems to be a header file problem).
I already tried many different softwares to repair, all didn't work.

So, I'm paying 0.05 btc for each video that you can repair and send me back. I have around 10 videos to repair.
if you wanna try here is the link to the folder containing all of the 9 corrupted videos that should be fixed:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B06oWSh21_HRbnBINkFUeDhid1U&usp=sharing

I asked you to try to fix one of them, and send me a preview  (few seconds of the video is ok). Then I'll send you the btc and after you receive you can send me the whole video fixed.

Tks so much,


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Hi guys,

I've received many answers (and PMs) just few hours after my post! Tks for that!

The link for one sample of the corrupted videos is on this first post.
I just would like to say that I'll give the 0.05 for the first one that send me a good preview (with the video fixed).
As soon as I receive this working preview from someone that fixed the video, I'll inform everyone.

I just would like to let you guys know that.
For those that worked hard but will not be the first one to send me the working preview, I'll still send 0.01 btc as reward.

Thanks so much for all your help and comprehension.

Best.
Chico

Cant you put em in a File editor and just cut out parts that dont work?

Where did the MOV files come from?  How do you think they got corrupted?

Is the footage of anything interesting?    ;)

Hmm, I may be able to help you, i have some computing skills

PM sent... and they're now offline. Awesome.

I tried many different softwares, didnt work!

Hi, it's a personal video that I recorded with my Nikon D3100 in my trip to Laos.
For me is interesting, but won't be for most of the people!
I don't know how they got corrupted, but it's interesting that I have other files in the same folder, of the same trip, that I copied from the same SD Card, that are working. But some (9 or 10 videos) are not working.
I do know that I use this external HD (where I keep these videos) very often, so could be because of this.
;)

Failure so far. Ill fix it around tomorrow when i get my computer that have all the programming needs.  ;)

Hi guys,

I've received many answers (and PMs) just few hours after my post! Tks for that!

The link for one sample of the corrupted videos is on the first post.
I just would like to say that I'll give the 0.05 for the first one that send me a good preview (with the video fixed).
As soon as I receive this working preview from someone that fixed the video, I'll inform everyone.

I just would like to let you guys know that.
For those that worked hard but will not be the first one to send me the working preview, I'll still send 0.01 btc as reward.

Thanks so much for all your help and comprehension.

Best.
Chico

I will try to download and fix the video.

can we please upload them to a less crap site... Mega would be good dropbox, google drive, sendspace

Yeah I'm having trouble downloading them as the timer is always stuck on 20 seconds.Try Dropbox or a better known online storage solution as it'd mean that this just works (famous slogan used to describe Macs)

I can try my entire tool kit on my MacBook Pro (as I got rid of my desktop and trying to sell off it's parts).I'm pretty sure Final Cut Pro 10 (or X) can handle this as well as everything else on there.

Hello,

Today i tried to reconstruct one of the videos.
It turned out the file is completely filled with 0's.
The file doesn't have ANY data at all.
I suspect this file was recovered after being removed from a filesystem.

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/d2869be867c935754656308465d940ae281534b5

Cleared^

But no tools I have open it, including VLC.

You guys... read my post above...
Open it with a Hex editor and you'll see the data is NULL.
It's just a file containing zero's. VLC won't be able to read anything from that

Martijnvdc is right, tried any program possible, converter or not, it results in a 3 sec video full of lines. Nothing more.
If you still have them from the sd card, try with recuva.

This is the result of converting your video http://www.filedropper.com/dsc2775

Are all of you guys trolling?

Seriously, the source video file does not contain any data.
It's filled with 0's. I would strongly advise everyone to look at the data in a hex editor.
So you can SEE the contents of the file yourself.
There are multiple cases where this phenomenon could happen...

I have a lot of experience with audio/video codecs. I am able to manually reconstruct headers for all popular video containers and A/V codecs.
There is literally nothing to reconstruct in that file. It's just a file containing 12186054 bytes with the value 0.
There is no header, there is no data, there is nothing.

This is what it looks like in a hex editor:
http://s18.postimg.org/4z42a1hcl/hex.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/4z42a1hcl/)

you still a noob so dont expect people to believe you straight away. im still waiting for the op to upload the file to a better host as the host its currently on is less than helpful... it could be blank due to the hosts filing system detecting corruption and writing in 0's..

> sign up on 4shared affiliate
> upload empty file
> offer a bounty to fix the unfixable
> get a bunch of downloads

10/10

LOL BRAVO

What if everyone doesn't sign up on 4shared, but instead uses the top-rated user/pass on bugmenot.com like I did? LOL

Hey guys, thanks for all your help,
I'm not cheating anyone here. I'm just asking for help with seems to be a impossible mission, and offering a (small) reward for it. Just this.
Why I'd loose my time answering posts, uploading files in different files for nothing?
I don't want to loose my time like you guys.

So, here I uploaded again the second video, in another server (now in GDrive).
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B06oWSh21_HRb2s1eTgtRDBTTDQ/edit?usp=sharing

I hope will work.
Tks so much,

Is Quicktime hex supposed to look like this repetition from start to end of file?

File is filled with looped garbage. Troll.

Hi,
I've been posting and trading in this forum for months, and I'm so sad that you think I'm troll, giving me negative trust points.
I don't know what I can say or do to prove that I'm not a troll.
My offer still stands. And as I said, I'd never loose my time, offering btc for a empty file.
I didn't know that was (is) empty. As I said in my first post, I've tried a lot of softwares trying to fixed it.
If it's all full of zeros, I'd never know. I don't have the IT skills for that.

So, I ask you, user TradeFortress, to remove the negative Trust points that you gave me.

I'm saying, I'm not a Troll, and you can ask in Portuguese Forum, for the users that I've been trading, to check this.

Best ,

He is not a troll. But the first few replies in this thread might have been...
His camera just messed up a few recordings, apparently.

Please send me all the video files you have. Maybe there are a few in there that do contain some valid data.

Hes not a troll, there are a lot of people with this problem and theres no solution yet. Thats the reason he want to come and find someone who can help

Even the second file is a fail, sorry to say but maybe those files are irrimediably broked.
Should I post my address for the tip?

wish I could help I tried as well for a little bit with no luck. Hopefully someone can help you out!

I'll do this later, tks martin!

yeah, I think I wont see any of this videos again..
tks

Hi guys, a heads up in this thread:
I'll post until tomorrow all the videos there are corrupted (9 in total) in 4shared and GDrive. Then you can try with any of them.
My offer still stands: 0.05 btc for each video recovered (for the first that send me a working preview).
I hope you guys can still try and have a look.

Meanwhile I'd like to thank you all for the help and for trying, even if no success. Seems that is a file problem, and you guys can't do much, right?
So, for your trying, I'd like to say thank you very much, and regard a small tip of 0.01 BTC for everyone that tried to help. So I ask you guys to send me a PM with your wallets, than I'll send to you this (small) reward.
This reward is just for the guys on the list bellow. For the guys from now on, just the 0.05 btc reward is available.

Here's the list:

kuusj98
toffoo
thebutterzone
junshong
naphto
vm1990
film2240
martijnvdc
FanEagle
girino
Bitsky
Adriano
TradeFortress
ajw7989

I hope you guys can keep trying.
Tks!

Hi,

You may be a victim of using a fake sdcard, you got it online? and for a price too good to be true?

You can test the sd by filling it up with videos and try watching them afterwards. You can also use h2testw to fill up the memory and report which sectors are actually working. I've seen fake chinese sds since the largest sd available was 4 gb, if it is your case you will like to get rid of it before it causes more problems. It may also be a faulty sd, but they usually are fake. They work fine until you filled certain limit, after that it will report to be working but almost no data will be saved anywhere...

If you buy sdcards online be careful, try to use sellers with very good ratings, or amazon, and test it as soon as you get it.

Btw all the 64 gb sds that are 10 usd are either fake or faulty, no exceptions...

You can find h2testw here:

http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/

Interesting, I've never heard of a faked sdcard, is it like a 1 GB card masquerading as an 8GB card?

Exactly, and they are quite slow compared to what they should be. I've seen 2 when it should have been 4 and a faulty 8 for 64 so far. But I'm sure there is other stuff around... Just google fake sdcards ebay and you will find lots of info on it...

Hi, tks. But my SD card is fine, I bought it in NY together with my NikonCamera. It's original and I've been working it for a long time, with no problem at all.
But thanks!

Ok, guess my instincts where off in this case...

@chicobr:
You can use the address in my sig. Thanks.

Not an SD card, but...

Outside:
http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/hdd.jpg

Inside:
http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/00f63d6s.jpg

Lol that is the worst fake that i've ever seen...

Hey guys,

Thanks again for the help.
I already sent the tip to butterzone, martin, faneagle, bitsky. waiting for the other wallets.

Meanwhile, I'm posting all the corrupted videos here in this GoogleDrive folder.
You can download and try if you want!

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B06oWSh21_HRbnBINkFUeDhid1U&usp=sharing

Thanks again!

Unfortunately the ones under 100MB all are either zeroed, have the text that I put in post #23, or this repeating sequence:

There's a malicious actor at work... I'd try to pull the files off your card/device on a clean computer.

Tks, will try this tomorrow.

Hello,

I will be able to fix ONE of your video files. But i will need a WORKING video file as a reference. (speeds things up dramatically for me)
The header is indeed broken, but i've seen worse.

Also, what do you mean by "malicious actor"... This is a really common phenomenon. It happened to a very old camera of mine about a year ago.

other files junk, DSC_2692.MOV, it is blonde man sailing down river look like nam song or mekanga

Here's the working video:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B06oWSh21_HRaWNoaGtjdFQ3SjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Hi, it's Mekong river, in Laos.
So could you fix it? the whole video?

this is a working video link if you need to help you fix this corrupted one.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B06oWSh21_HRaWNoaGtjdFQ3SjQ/edit?usp=sharing

tks,

Hello,

I have repaired DSC_2692.MOV.
I will send you a PM with a link to the repaired video file.

I'm afraid this is the only video file i will be able to recover, the rest have nothing but garbage data.

Once you watch this tutorial on YouTube. which is really helpful in order to repair MOV files.
http://youtu.be/QfvQ_HXQmmM (http://youtu.be/QfvQ_HXQmmM)