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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Corrupted or broken MP4 videos is something of the worst most of us have witnessed in their days as creators. But fear not there is a way to recover broken MP4 Containers!
The reason why an MP4 video file can become broken is that it was not finished properly. This means for some reason the recorder was not able to write the end of the file to the storage device. In case of an mp4 container, this is a big deal because mp4 files contain important metadata at the end of the file. So if this piece is missing the entire video cannot be played back!
So to get around this problem we are going to extract the video and Audio Stream of the broken mp4 file which we want to fix. After we extracted the streams we are going to use the FFmpeg encoder to bundle our streams to a fixed mp4 file.
To learn more about how to fix broken or damaged mp4 video files visit the website of the creator of recover_mp4.
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This video is about how to fix corrupted mp4 files using FFmpeg and recover_mp4. MP container can become corrupted when they're not getting finalized properly.
When my daughter was born, I was waiting in the hospital room to hold see her for the first time and hold her in my hands. I had setup my camera to record this moment and it froze while recording after about 5 minutes of recording and the entire file was corrupted. I saved the corrupted file anyway, hoping one day I will be able to find a fix. Today (after nearly 4 years) I found your tutorial and fixed it and watched the video for the first time :) You my friend are earning a lot of good karma here ;) :)
Waw, what a heard warming story. I'm glad I could help to safe and bring back such an important video.
Its not workin help :(
Now run the following command to start recovering:
recover_mp4.exe corrupted_file --novideo --noaudio --ext
@@serialmeelk you realize, you must rewrite the "corrupted_file" with whatever the name of your corrupted file is, right? He did it pretty quick in the video.
@@GreenBoxMedia i downloaded some TH-cam videos and videos from websites would this method help me recover them?
@@rwcons1390 most likely not because you would need a working file from the same encoder. And I doubt you just happen to have one.
5 years ago, this man helps me fix a Breath of the Wild playthrough. 5 Years later, hear I am again, fixing a Call of Cthulhu playthrough. I commend you good sir, many thanks and many graces!
Glad I could help, twice
THIS MAN DESERVES A MEDAL! Literally have spent 2 days trying to fix this and came across this! Thank you so much dude!
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for this! I'm a DM and was recording a dnd episode on obs when the power went out. Thank gods for the file still being there, though not playable. Had over 5 hours of audio content saved from the corrupted file, and was able to get it back! It was a pivotal episode too! My players and myself thank you, and their adventure continues still and will be remembered!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! For a full day I struggled looking around for a fix on the internet because I didn't want to pay for fixing a video that cost me nothing to capture, but I didn't want to go to the trouble of going back to recapture it. You're a good teacher!
It might take some tries... For exampel i had a space in my broken files name and so it didnt work. As I closed the space in the title, everything went well and its playing again. You have no idea how much you saved my life! I owe you so much dude
Thanks, you really saved me! Especially since I'm not exactly a tech expert and you explained everything you were doing very clearly and still managed to put it into a less than 5 min video.
I am happy to help :) yeah I'm tired of 15 min tutorials where an Indian kid explains his whole life story too. (Nothing against Indians tho.) I try to talk as much as needed and as little as possible. 🤙
I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. I could recover one hour of filming of a concert I need to produce. The file went corrupted when suddenly the camera stopped. Many many thanks.
Took a second try, but worked marvelously! After watching 3 videos in which it was obvious no real effort was made to fix the files, but rather to sell a software, your solution was satisfying and incredibly easy. much obliged!
Glad to hear I could help!
Still working even at the end of 2022!
My video file got corrupted as my camera freezes while recording and had to turn it off by removing the battery, the file was saved but cannot be played in any video player!
Thanks a lot, for this very helpful tutorial and tools, no need to download yet another sketchy trial program for fixing stuff as this instruction is very plain and easy to follow!
I keep coming back to this video over and over. Such a brilliant tutorial, easily the most useful video I've ever found on the internet!
Bruhhh what a big props I have to give you!
This process removed the audio of the video, but I only needed the video, so all good! This is probably different for each case of corrupted file used, but for me it worked just how I wanted to.
To be honest I was skeptical about the process, but everything worked fine.
Good job, nice video!
Excellent step by step tutorial. This helped me recover a dash cam video from an accident that I really needed. Thank you so much!
Very happy to help and hopefully help you with that situation!
Thank you soo much. I managed to recover the only clip capturing the wedding vows. You've left a mark in my career - and reputation too.
Someone give this guy a medal 🙏🍾Worked!
🎖
you've just saved me 60 dollars, i recorded both Rosalia and Charli XCX's presentation at Coachella. 4 hours of recording which i didn't wanted to lose. I figured out there had to be a way when i installed Wondershare Recoverit and i say under it's process's in taskmanager, the only one doing something was some fmmpeg weird name. When i saw the video could be recovered, but it was behind a paywall i decided to look for videos, found this one. Hopefully it'll the same result, now i just gotta wait, a lot of time for it to end, but im hopeful, thx for the video man
This one didn't work for me unfortunately. The original file was 3.3Gb and the new repaired filed was only 66mb . When I ran the final command, I kept getting "Error applying bitstream filters to an output packet for stream #0:1.
It almost worked. :(
Sorry to hear that :c
No. We are only interested in the metadata from the working file.
@@GreenBoxMedia any solution to this?
Yes, try restore.media
@@GreenBoxMedia i followed the steps on the video I recovered a file it was supposed to be an hour long video but it was converted to a 9 second video which is like fast forwarded to the maximum level! you deserve a million subs! will subscribe definitely.
Thank you, this method saved my 1 hour of gameplay recorded using Nvidia Shadowplay. Thanks once again Genius.
Actually worked!
I hope so!
worked for me too :) Really didn't expect that.
Brother can you tell which file to download as its showing many files
Kicked the plug by accident with OBS running. Unusable file until using these steps. In 5 minutes I got back an hour of work! Thanks!
You are welcome
You are my savior! Your directions are so clear. It recovered as much as it could... the ends of my files cut off and in some files most of the files were cut off because of my phone's storage running out in the middle of recording. If that didn't happen I'm sure the result would have been perfect. Thank you! :)
Awesome to hear I could help! This feedback means a lot to me! ✌️
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!! Thank you so much. Saved a bunch of drone footage. You have earned a new subscriber today.
You saved my project so hard.. thank you so much for the tutorial!! Such a lifesaver!!
Happy to help! 👍
My Drone developed a mind of its own this morning and came to a very unpleasant end. I did find it (a minor miracle as it crashed onto a roof and bounced off) but to add insult to injury the video file it was recording, when I lost control, was corrupted.
I found this TH-cam video, followed the instructions, and was able able to recover the complete video, from take-off, to roof bounce, to crashing back to earth. The drone looks like it will never fly again, but thanks to GreenBox's video I was able to recover the footage, which has made the loss of the drone easier to live it.
Thank you!
Im sorry for your drone. Glad i could turn your total disaster into a "just" disaster...
You sir, are an absolute legend. Thank you for saving me a hell of a lot of re-recording
Glad to help
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A UI for this would be awesome, but your walkthrough made the command line easy to follow and worked great. I had some distortion at the top of the clip through the duration of the clip but it was better than nothing. Thank you!
The developer of this command line tool have created a new web-based service that lets you configure and preview your restore in a web browser. You can take a look at it at: restore.media
@@GreenBoxMedia Thanks!
@@GreenBoxMedia The offline version was perfect since my file was a 21GB file :) But I'll bookmark this!
Saved your ass? Use the THANKS feature and let me know ♥
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! If you're in LA, I'll give you all the coffee you want!
@@BelievahDahDiva sorry I'm a european potato 🥔
@@GreenBoxMedia tysm brooo i already tried so much method and didnt work but with this method it worked perfectly fine
"Cannot open file 'corrupted_file'" Any idea?
@@steffanthusgaardgraversen4078 replace 'corupted_file' with the actual name of the file including it's suffix (.mp4)
Omg this actually worked software like Wondershare Repairit are a joke when something like this works for free. Seriously this is the best
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I clicked the ( " Don't click this link" ) in the description. .
People like me just have to. That's when I subscribed.
Gonna give this a try and see if I can do it.
My Micro SD has over 60GB of corrupt MP4's and each one has an MP4-0 , & MP4-1 with it
So each corrupt video is comprised of three files.
Bro you saved me
Earlier.. I lowkey was going to comment: "how it came out chopped for me; better than nothing" but just in case I tried it again with a more similar mp4 file from my recordings and it worked even better. I watched other videos for a solution and none came close to this video at all. My recording came out flawlessly, but only down side is the audio got chopped but i was planning to talk over it regardless so no loss. Thank you so much... seriously 💓 I was really devastated cuz my computer just error screen out of no where while i was recording too. Thank you so much
You are welcome!
It recover the file but the audio make me sound like an alien. Any tips? Thank You btw, wouldn’t get the file if not for you :)
Might be that the audio was damaged in more then one way... Maybe try the latest version on restore.media (not sponsored)
Best tutorial ever, you know it's a serious tutorial when you have to enter CMD, but it was very easy to understand, thank you so much!!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! haha
You're welcome!
I think this will by my first time to comment, subscribe, and share at the same time, a video on TH-cam. I just want to say THANK YOU! Thank you so much! I shot an interview for a client and my camera turned off because of a lowbatt Vmount thru a dummy Batt for an a7sII camera. The result, corrupted mp4 file. Found this vid and went through your instructions. It was a 10min interview saved by this video. Thank you again!
I'm happy to help!
For mine, it says "Cannot open file 'good.exe' please help me thank you!
good.exe? Isn't that suppose to read good.mp4?
same
Same awnser for you. Make sure it's the right (and exact) name. Most likely you missed the .mp4
@@GreenBoxMedia dw bout it bro i figured it out its that when i was recording i didnt save is as mp4 i saved it as m4v
you need to right the line " recover_mp4.exe good.mp4.mp4
--analyze"
ABSURD! This worked for a 20gb Sony 6600 File that was corrupted due to a kick in the tripod. SIMPLY AMAZING, thank you
You are welcome
Worked perfectly, thank you!
I'm glad I could help!
Worked for me! Thanks GreenBox! You just saved me some money.
In my case, I had screen-recorded some streaming video overnight, without realizing my drive was so low on space. When I ran out of space, the recorded halted abruptly after capturing about 11 GB of video. I tried a trial version of a Windows-based recover tool that sells for >$50. It was very slow (took almost 30 min.) and ultimately failed to recover much of the video, and what it did recover was poor quality. Your method, on the other hand, recovered all of it in perfect quality, and took far less time (
Nice to hear. May you want to share the name of that paid tool with us?
I tried to use Kernel Video Repair at this site: www.nucleustechnologies.com/video-repair/. Since this software is so highly praised, I'm now wondering that maybe just the trial version has issues, and that the purchased product might work fine. The trial version has a 30-second playback restriction on the finished file. The result I got was a bunch of small video segments, some of which had no content. Kernel Video Repair truly appears to be a good product as it supports a lot of formats as well as other features, and comes with a guarantee. Presently, at the sale price of $29, it might be worth a try if one has a lot of videos to process. As for me, my need to repair a video is rare, while it almost always involves an MP4.
Interestingly Kernel just reached out to me for a colab and I might be testing that tool myself. Maybe it really was only the trail. We will see.
That's great. I'll watch for your evaluation!
Hello, GreenBox! I had a .mp4 file from a screen recording of an important meeting that I have, unhappily my laptop crashed in the middle and I had to restart it and start a new recording... After finishing the meeting, I went to check the first recording and it was corrupted. Unfortunately, all websites and physical stores ask me for a huge price to recover it because it was severely damaged and it was a big file. Thanks to you and your method, I managed to recover the file (just about 8minutes of the final of the video that weren't repaired, that is, the video got 8 minutes smaller, but that's not a big deal, considering that I recuperated 100 minutes of the video), saving me a lot of time and money! Thanks a lot! Continue to make good content and useful for people!
Happy to hear this helped you :)
Thanks man!!! It finally worked for me after too much headache and struggle. Although Voice is breaking intermittently in final result video ,still it is very important video for me. Thanks again!!!!
You're welcome!
absolute legend i spent hours trying to find something that helps before i happened to find this video
I've been trying this with some files on my hard drive that got REALLY corrupted. They produce files, but they don't look anything like I expect them to. Any ideas on how to fix something like that?
It's also my case. When I tried to repair it it happened to be a sample of another video -- just the audio -- as if the videos smashed together somehow. I have no idea what to do. They're corrupted really bad. Did you find a solution?
This still works now! Thank you so much! managed to recover 4 broken videos using this method!
hey man i really need your help cuz im seriously losing it, so i was working on a video and i did something stupid on the middle of it and downloaded a plugin for vegas, so this changed my original files to sfk files so i tried your method and it worked well until i got to the recover_mp4.exe broken.mp4 result.h264 result.aac --ext part. it says Cannot open file 'broken.mp4' and im at a lose of what to do now, is there any way to fix this or am i just doomed
The sfk files are only waveforms and complementary. Your mp4 have to be somewhere. However, your error message sounds like you either did not change "broken.mp4" to the name of the actual broken mp4 file or the path specified to the broken.mp4 is wrong.
@@GreenBoxMedia thank you for the reply i actually fixed it although i have no idea how, it just suddenly started working again but seriously i have no idea how
Many thanks GreenBox - so glad I found you.
You already save me two times man. Thanks :D
Haha glad to hear 🙌. I feel like I should start selling subscription for returning customers 😂
Wow...was about to delete a messed up OBS file of an awesome PvP siege :D SAVED HOOREY!
Glad I could help! HOOREY!
unfortunately 🤕didn't work for me: "FATAL ERROR: The file 'broken.mp4' cannot be recovered. The entire file is filled by FF byte!"
same, it says 0bytes. did you find a solution?
My computer just crashed while in the middle of an OBS recording, that file was corrupt, I tried using an online method but it didn't work. I tried this method and it did the job!
Glad to hear you got your recording back!
thank you, i firstly had troubles but that was because i skipped the intro and missed the part that i need 1 corrupted file and one example file.
Glad it worked out in the end!
Before I say anything this method is the most effective method I have found as of yet. Non the less it only recovered 25% of my recorded video with no sound. ;-;
Try restore.media maybe they can recover the full file (same developer)
Thanks so much, I thought i will never be able to recover my recording, but your solution did :D
The only thing that doesn't work is the sound, but I can do without it ;)
Glad I could help!
Review: thank God it runs, only if you skip it immediately at a certain time it stops for a long time & doesn't run, I haven't tried to see the full video for 1 hour straight
the picture is clear, only the sound is lost and irregular, but it's ok because I need a picture instead of sound🙏🏼😭😭
For sound you could see if rewtore.media can help with this.
@@GreenBoxMedia Using the media player it runs but waits a minute, then I try it on VLC and it runs straight away. Weaknesses: no sound (vague sound)
blud loves to hear himself talk
Damn!, I didn't believe until i tried it... Is actually working... The problem is that i only have a sound for first few seconds of the movie then the rest is mute... Still better than nothing. Thank you!
Happy to help. restore.media (same dev) might be able to get the audio back as well.
Thank you so much for saving my video, simple and clear steps, better than any fix tools I found on internet.
You're welcome!
Thanks for this great tutorial. I was able to recover a large portion of the video which is awesome considering that before following your instructions, I had nothing. Thanks again!
Thank you so much when my footage got corrupted for my video I was panicking thinking that I wasn't going to be able to upload.
Happy to help! ✌️
Dude... I was doubtful at the begining, I thought it was a hidden trojan or a hidden keylogger. But it saved my drone video!! Thank you so much for sharing knowledge!
Glad I could help!
It worked! Thank you so much! Yesterday I recorded a flood and got an accident where I fell into a deep enough sewer. The last minute of the videos got corrupted, now it works. But the scenes where I fell to the water can not be recovered maybe due to the camera damage.
Glad to hear you at least got some of your footage back!
Thanks bro you saved me 30usd, to all new people trying this solution, ffmpeg files might not be in the same location as other so quick fix is copy and paste both working and corrupted files + recover_mp4 file (or rather extract/unzip recover_mp4 to ffmpeg location i.e. under bin folder of ffmpeg then run command from beginning i.e. recover_mp4.exe ......etc.
FATAL ERROR: The file 'broken.mp4' cannot be recovered. The entire file is filled by 00 byte!
I guess its over :(
but thx for your video
same! did you find a solution?
You saved my project TKS!
Happy to help! :)
This saved my 4 hour run on elden ring, thank you king
No problem 👍
if i had a working mp4 i wouldn't be here
Really you think we don't realize that? It has to be ANY working files created with the same camera not the exact one.
Thank you! My last recording on a video I'm making corrupted but I had the MP4 file form my Sony A6400. There were so many paid versions that I couldn't even see if they would work. Your method worked first try and is great. I'm so happy as I couldn't re-record as it was a work in progress clip.
Happy to hear you got your video back ✌️
It worked!! I'm grateful to you and your editor for this solution.
glad it worked for most here. but .... Cannot open file "corrupted_file'.. damn. really hoping i dont' have to pay to fix this file.
you need replace "corrupted_file' with the actual file name +suffix
for anyone struggling, i used this software its free and worked! however, the first time i tried it, and when it asked me for a second reference file, i chose a much smaller one, and it completely worked (after it failed with a larger reference file).. link is below:
www.risingresearch.com/en/dvr
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Nice I did not know about this software yet! Thanks for sharing!
This worked great. My file wasn't perfect, but it was recovered enough to work with!
Amazing, audio was a bit smashed, but it worked. Thanks!
whenever i analyze the good video i have it tells me stats of my video and creates .hdr files but gives me no instructions after that
You migth have a newer h264 flavor this software cant work with. The same dev now runs restore.media which might be able to fix it.
You're a lifesaver brother....not all heroes wear a cape....indeed.
Thanks a ton man!!
This video is gold!!
Tried so many different things before I came across this video..
Thank you so much! I had an hour and a half long podcast episode I recorded and it got corrupted, the whole thing is fixed!!!
I'm happy to help! 👍
Exactly what I needed, worked perfectly. Thank you!
Cannot find 'mdat' atom in first 64MB of 'bad.mp4'
FATAL ERROR: The file 'bad2.mp4' cannot be recovered. The entire file is filled by 00 byte!
what do i do now?
these were the files i recovered from a data recovery software but they ended up being restored but corrupted
same, it says 0bytes. did you find a solution?
I followed the onscreen cmd instructions but the file couldn't be put together without bunch of errors, makes me wonder if the files were really recovered or not
I also get this message "This app can not run on your PC . Contact software developer"
When you have issues running this software by command line, give restore.media a shot which is a web-based solution.
Thank you very much, followed your steps and I got my not working video worked again.
Happy to help ✌️
BROOOOOO!!! IT WORKS YOU GIVE ME BIG SMILE!!! Now I can recover my corrupted porn video lmao hahahaha
Well much fun I guess...
Worked! Just restored a beautiful drone shot. Thank you a lot.
You are welcome :)
You save my life I have a quiz this Thursday thank you!!!! YOU DESERVE A MILLION SUBS!
You're very welcome!
After analyzing the broken file i just get this:
Now run the following command to start recovering:
recover_mp4.exe corrupted_file --novideo --noaudio --ext
Then use ffmpeg to mux the final file:
ffmpeg.exe ???
Any idea what commands i could try to start recovering? Thanks
Thank you so much sir!!! I have been trying many software but it was useless. You really saved my videos in such easy way!!! Keep it up!!!
Happy to help ✌️
This worked perfectly for helping me with my corrupted GoPro files!
Thank you so much i had half an hour recording of a party that was corrupted and you're the first one that could help me with the problem.
Dropped a like&sub!
glad it helped!
Can u please give me fixed a corrupted file
Worked great! First attempt was a 1080p clip from smartphone (timelapse, phone died) and 2nd clip was a 4k clip (also timelapse, phone died) and I used 1080p clip as a working clip for a 4k broken clip and I got some awesome rainbow gradient effect for the result haaaaaaaa
God, how I love you ... you just saved a video of my wedding ceremony.
thank you very much
Happy to help!
My video corrupted due to power cut off during recording, I tried this way to repair my 50 mins of interview video. However, after recovering it, top part of the video is gray in color & the gray part of it sort of covered part of my subject's head. which means I cant use the footage for my edit. Any help? :(
This sounds like the file is either damaged or the tool could properly recover it due to a metadata mismatch. Best advice is to give restore.media a try if they (same dev) can repair it.
OMG. thank u so much. this works fine! sound sync so bad, but mp4 is recovered! thank you so much.
You're welcome! Happy I could help!
Wow this actually works wtf, I had an encounter with a cop (just told me to get off the intersection) while riding my motorized bike but the file was corrupt. lol
Magic 🪄
Following your instructions, I repaired my gopro corrupted files! thanks a lot!
Happy to help! :)
You Are an Angel! Thanks to You I manged to save a video file, where ALL the other tricks would not Work!
Glad I could help!
Lifesaver!!!impossible !!!
U r amazing !!!
Though mine the voice was still corrupted but the full video was back for free without any purchase or license or cracks for any software.
Happy to help 👍
This worked for me. I had 18 minutes of a wedding speech on a Canon 6D that corrupted due to a power loss (old third party battery, learned my lesson). It created a DAT file with (3.98GB) so I knew there was video data there. Follow the directions carefully and this will work for cases like mine.
Awesome to hear that!
Yes I've had this problem before, multiple times. Happens every few years which is just enough time to forget the process.
Thank you very much bro today i recorded an important official meeting and atlast the video corrupted. With the help of you i got it back. i was really helpful to me. Thanks a lot bro
Glad I could help
Hi, the file is wanted to recover was 1.86 gb but the result file was only 9 mb. Also the audio is there but in place of video there are random pixels. Please guide