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AVI problem

mindyourlanguage
mindyourlanguage Posts: 265 Forumite
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hello

I was recording CCTV footage on my computer via WM player and with had a power cut.

I can't open the file no more. The reason probably being it hadn't finished recording. Is there anyway of fixing this?

Thanks

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  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    The file will be corrupt, but often you can repair a broken avi.

    Open the file in virtualdub and when it asks if you want to reconstruct the headers, say yes. It'll take a while but should recover the video up to a few secnds before the power cut.

    Then buy a UPS. ;)
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • mindyourlanguage
    mindyourlanguage Posts: 265 Forumite
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    weegie.geek wrote: »
    The file will be corrupt, but often you can repair a broken avi.

    Open the file in virtualdub and when it asks if you want to reconstruct the headers, say yes. It'll take a while but should recover the video up to a few secnds before the power cut.

    Then buy a UPS. ;)

    Cheers for the responce.

    I downloades VirtualDub-1.8.4 and opened the application, then I went to open and selected the avi file. It came up with unsupported and not valid :confused:
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,940 Forumite
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    Have a go with:

    http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

    It's free and Open Source.
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