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You can also try extracting streams with ffmpeg if youāre 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.
Donāt 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 ārepair AVI/MP4ā 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 thereās still hope. Usually dead 0KB videos are harder to fix than videos with actual size.
So Iām honestly stressed out right now. I was on a trip last week and my OnePlus 11 randomly froze while recording videos. Phone restarted itself and since then a bunch of my gallery videos either donāt play or show 0:00 duration. Photos are mostly okay but almost every important video from the trip is broken.
I copied everything to my laptop thinking maybe the phone was the issue, but VLC canāt play them either. Some files are MP4, sizes look normal like 300MB-700MB, but they just wonāt open.
I didnāt have Google Photos backup on because hotel WiFi was terrible and I kept delaying it. Worst mistake ever.
Anybody dealt with something similar before? Is this corruption repairable or are these videos basically gone?
I know basic coding but ffmpeg stuff always feels intimidating š