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AmyCollins2
I’ve got a corrupted MP4 file that won’t play in my Media Player. I was transferring the file to my Windows 8 desktop from a USB stick when some glitch interrupted the process. The file was transferred to the disk, but the USB memory card became unresponsive. So I had to hard-eject it out of the computer.
When trying to connect the card back, Windows couldn’t identify it. I’ve tried to read it with my other computer (Mac) – no luck either. I guess that the card got corrupted for some reason during the transferring process.
But that’s not all bad news. Eventually, it appeared that the MP4 video file I’ve transferred doesn’t play in Windows Media Player. This is weird, since the file looks just like a regular MP4 video. The size and the name of the file are fine.
After Googling around I’ve found some suggest to try playing the file with a VLC media player, which has some sort of an in-built video file repair option. However, this didn’t help. When trying to open the MP4 file, I still get an error that the file is damaged.
I also found other tutorial on repairing MP4 files, which is based on the Command Prompt tool. If I understood it right, the tool extracts the video and audio streams from the corrupted file and then rebuilds the file from scratch with new indices and metadata required to play the file.
I’ve tried the tool, and it works fine. I’ve got a preview of the repaired file, but to download the file I need to pay $14. This is not much, but I thought to ask if there any other options.
So, the question is – are there any options within the Windows Media Player to play corrupted MP4 files? Or, are there any tools built into Windows 8, which can repair an MP4 file? I know, there are cleanup and defragmentation utilities, so I thought there might be some utility for fixing corrupted files, or something like that?
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When trying to connect the card back, Windows couldn’t identify it. I’ve tried to read it with my other computer (Mac) – no luck either. I guess that the card got corrupted for some reason during the transferring process.
But that’s not all bad news. Eventually, it appeared that the MP4 video file I’ve transferred doesn’t play in Windows Media Player. This is weird, since the file looks just like a regular MP4 video. The size and the name of the file are fine.
After Googling around I’ve found some suggest to try playing the file with a VLC media player, which has some sort of an in-built video file repair option. However, this didn’t help. When trying to open the MP4 file, I still get an error that the file is damaged.
I also found other tutorial on repairing MP4 files, which is based on the Command Prompt tool. If I understood it right, the tool extracts the video and audio streams from the corrupted file and then rebuilds the file from scratch with new indices and metadata required to play the file.
I’ve tried the tool, and it works fine. I’ve got a preview of the repaired file, but to download the file I need to pay $14. This is not much, but I thought to ask if there any other options.
So, the question is – are there any options within the Windows Media Player to play corrupted MP4 files? Or, are there any tools built into Windows 8, which can repair an MP4 file? I know, there are cleanup and defragmentation utilities, so I thought there might be some utility for fixing corrupted files, or something like that?
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