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I was shooting video with a Canon EOS 7D, and it was telling me the battery (I thought) was getting hot, so I opened the battery cover and it promptly shut off. It was a battery pack, and the batteries stayed in place even though it shut off. So now I have a 1.4 GB file that even ffmpeg cannot read. I have plenty of other files shot with the exact same format that I could look off of to read the data if I needed to, but how do I do that.

ffmpeg -i on the bad file:

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 000001572b9fa3a0] moov atom not found
MVI_3891.MOV: Invalid data found when processing input

ffmpeg -i on a good file:

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'MVI_3892.MOV':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt
    minor_version   : 537331968
    compatible_brands: qt  CAEP
    creation_time   : 2016-01-28 12:04:16
  Duration: 00:12:10.86, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 46897 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, smpte170m/bt709/bt709), 1920x1080, 45357 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 60k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-01-28 12:04:16
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le (sowt / 0x74776F73), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-01-28 12:04:16
Hennes
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Arlen Beiler
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Try with recover_mp4_to_h264. It's a command line program, and will require a good reference file.

Usage as indicated:

recover_mp4_to_h264 in_good_similar.mp4 --avcc
recover_mp4_to_h264 in_corrupted.mp4 out_video.h264 [out_audio.aac | out_audio.wav | out_audio.mp3] [<recorder>]
recover_mp4_to_h264 in_corrupted.mp4 out_video.h264 [--aac | --pcm | --mp3] [<recorder>]
Gyan
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Reference And Download: http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/data-recovery-software/mov-recovery.htm

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Select "Video" and click "Next" button to start your mov recovery job.

Step 2. Select the disk where you lost your data and click "Scan" button, the software will quickly scan the selected disk to find all your lost mov. If you lost your partition, select "Lost Disk Drives" and "Scan" to continue the recovery process.

Step 3. After scan, you can see all the listed recoverable mov files one by one and select out those you want. Then, click "Recover" button to get them back once. Here you should save all the recovered files on another disk to avoid data overwriting.

Hope this helps!

Tom Dickson
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