Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

[Jason Poulter]

ive tried this in the pass worked pretty well when i tested it.

http://grauonline.de/cmsimple2_6/en/?Solutions:HD_Video_Repair_Utility#download

jason

On 10/20/2012 10:58 AM, Jim March wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a broken .mp4 file on my hands that is critically important to
> a political thing I'm doing.
>
> The file is at:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1825088/ScytlBaltimore.mp4
>
> I've tried using a front-end to ffmeg called "format junkie" to fix
> this critter and the error it spits out is "moov atom not found".
>  This apparently means the data might be there, but the video format
> structure does exist.
>
> Some google-fu led me to this page:
>
> http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php
> <http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/%7Eponchio/untrunc.php>
>
> Awesome!  An open-source util that can cope with this.
>
> Problems though...
>
> It needs "libavformat-dev and libavcodec-dev straight from the Ubuntu
> repositories" and the Quantal that I'm running (latest Ubuntu) can't
> load those per Synaptic - not without a lot of dependency hell stuff
> that might break FSM only knows what.
>
> I have a VM copy of Mint 8 that might, but I can't seem to get
> Virtualbox to pass it networking so that I could load those and load
> the build-essentials stuff needed to compile this critter.
>
> Can anybody help by compiling untrunc and then applying it to that
> data file!?  I'd be very, very grateful :(.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>
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