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[Malc and Di]

I have uploaded 2 file recovery utilities for you to try. Winhex is hard but is the best bet using the option file recovery by type.

http://www.zen103860...ecovery_pro.zip
http://www.zen103860...o.uk/winhex.rar

M

[maph2]

ta - will give it go

[Malc and Di]

ta - will give it go

Give me a call if you need help with Winhex. Just extract everything into a folder and double-click on winhex.exe Then go tools-open disk. Open the drive. Tools-Disk Tools-file recovery by type. With the default installation you are limited in the size of files that can be recovered but there's a, ahem, thing in there that will allow you to use the full version.

[Jammy]

Shoot a PM to Silicon Skum.

[Matt]

As above.. Silicon scum is the God of computers

Think he should be made the resident TMF IT Specialist.

Edited by Matt, 08 September 2007 - 10:38 AM.

[tomsbluemini]

Have we had any luck recovering the file yet???

Tom

[Malc and Di]

Have we had any luck recovering the file yet???

Tom

The file has been recovered. It's a bit glitchy apparently. Maph is sending it to me. If the people involved are happy for it to be shown I'll flv encode it and put it up somewhere on t'web.

Malc

[mighty_mini]

Ahhh good. When it was transferred to my laptop we mustve just copied across the file as it wouldnt have registered the raw data left on the SD card.


If you want somewhere to host, i can stick it on my website malc.

[maph2]

can get the avi to play only in real movieplayer. there are a few glitches which make it skip frames in places and a couple of bad areas that make it crash so needs some work. you can get the idea though, particularly at the "money shot".

[Malc and Di]

Ahhh good. When it was transferred to my laptop we mustve just copied across the file as it wouldnt have registered the raw data left on the SD card.


If you want somewhere to host, i can stick it on my website malc.

Thanks mate but I've got 3 hosting accounts!

[tomsbluemini]

can get the avi to play only in real movieplayer. there are a few glitches which make it skip frames in places and a couple of bad areas that make it crash so needs some work. you can get the idea though, particularly at the "money shot".

Great Stuff

It's amazing what technology can do these days...

Look forward to seeing it soon, and hope that Maph and Di are recovering well...

Regards

Tom

[Malc and Di]

can get the avi to play only in real movieplayer. there are a few glitches which make it skip frames in places and a couple of bad areas that make it crash so needs some work. you can get the idea though, particularly at the "money shot".

Ok I'll try a few things to get it smoother.

[mighty_mini]

what about re-writing the index file? obviously make a copy first as it doesnt alwasys work perfectly.

[Malc and Di]

what about re-writing the index file? obviously make a copy first as it doesnt alwasys work perfectly.

You'll have to talk me through that one. I was just going to try some file repair software. Maybe try Divx encoding it. See what happens if I convert it to swf, convert the swf to avi, convert the avi to flv. And if all else fails export every single frame and reassemble it in Flash or something. What's the index file?

[mighty_mini]

an avi is made up of two important things. The Video and Audio stream, located at the start of the file, and the index file, located at the end. The index file takes up about .5-10% of the end of the avi file. It provides information on the avi, and tells the player being used where to go to play a particular part. Some players can live without an index file, but most can’t. This is what can cause glitching etc.

If the file isnt a divx/mp4 file then there maybe a change it doesnt have such an index file as im not too sure every video has some kind of index file.



If converting it doesnt work, try a program called VirtualDub. This will import the video and should cut it frame by frame.

http://www.divx-dige...are/divfix.html

or

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Edited by mighty_mini, 11 September 2007 - 07:28 PM.