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I know basic coding but ffmpeg stuff always feels intimidating 😅
You can also try extracting streams with ffmpeg if you’re comfortable with command line stuff.
Honestly smart move. A lot of people keep using the device and overwrite recoverable stuff.
Good point. I actually stopped using the phone after this happened because I was scared something deeper was wrong.
Same here. If the corruption happened during recording interruption, repair tools sometimes rebuild the missing header info.
I recovered vacation videos once using a video repair software where you upload a healthy sample video from same phone/camera. Worked surprisingly well.
Yeah actually most were 4K60 HEVC.
Were these recorded in HEVC by any chance? Some players act weird with partially corrupted HEVC videos.
Don’t edit or re-save the original files btw. Keep untouched copies somewhere safe before trying repair tools.
Tried that sadly. VLC just errors out after a few seconds.
Try copying one file and opening it in VLC with “repair AVI/MP4” enabled. Sometimes VLC fixes small corruption automatically.
Sounds like the phone crashed while writing the video index/metadata. I had something similar after my Samsung overheated once.
Yeah none of them are 0KB thankfully. They all have normal sizes which is why this is confusing me.
If file sizes still look normal then there’s still hope. Usually dead 0KB videos are harder to fix than videos with actual size.
There are GUI tools too. Easier than command line honestly.