<p>I was doing the recovering process in a wrong way. With a better way of recovering, now, 1h17m of the 1h27m video is recovered. Meaning only the last 10m is <em>not</em> recovered. The details are here:</p>
<p><a href="https://superuser.com/a/1691027/571029">https://superuser.com/a/1691027/571029</a></p>

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2021-12-03T10:12:02.200Z
2021-12-03T10:12:02.200Z
Megidd
<h1>Background</h1>
<p>I have recovered some large videos as explained here:</p>
<p><a href="https://superuser.com/q/1686118/571029">https://superuser.com/q/1686118/571029</a></p>
<p>There are 3 videos of almost the same size with the same content, apparently:</p>
<pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>&gt; ls recoverit-Wondershare/ -lh
total 23G
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.7G Nov 25 20:03 00000084.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.3G Nov 25 18:10 39289942016.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.3G Nov 25 20:30 5142605824.mp4
</code></pre>
<h1>Problem</h1>
<p>The problem is all of the 3 videos could only be played up to 27m. I'm playing by VLC media player. But the video duration according to reported duration by <code>ffprobe</code> is 1h27m:</p>
<pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>&gt; ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal recoverit-Wondershare/00000084.mp4 
1:27:14.640000
</code></pre>
<p>Also, right-click details/properties menu shows that the 1h27m is the duration.</p>
<h1>No fatal erros</h1>
<p>I double-check video integrity by the method here:</p>
<p><a href="https://superuser.com/a/100290/571029">https://superuser.com/a/100290/571029</a></p>
<p>By this command:</p>
<pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>&gt; ffmpeg -v fatal -i recoverit-Wondershare/00000084.mp4 -f null - 2&gt;error-fatal.log
</code></pre>
<p>But there are no fatal error reported in <code>error-fatal.log</code>.</p>
<h1>Question</h1>
<p>What else can I do to fix/play the videos?</p>

<ffmpeg><mpeg><vlc><mpeg4>
A video of 1h27m duration, only plays up to 27m
Megidd
# A video of 1h27m duration, only plays up to 27m

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-11-26)

Background
I have recovered some large videos as explained here:
https://superuser.com/q/1686118/571029
There are 3 videos of almost the same size with the same content, apparently:
> ls recoverit-Wondershare/ -lh
total 23G
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.7G Nov 25 20:03 00000084.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.3G Nov 25 18:10 39289942016.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 m3 users 3.3G Nov 25 20:30 5142605824.mp4

Problem
The problem is all of the 3 videos could only be played up to 27m. I'm playing by VLC media player. But the video duration according to reported duration by ffprobe is 1h27m:
> ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal recoverit-Wondershare/00000084.mp4 
1:27:14.640000

Also, right-click details/properties menu shows that the 1h27m is the duration.
No fatal erros
I double-check video integrity by the method here:
https://superuser.com/a/100290/571029
By this command:
> ffmpeg -v fatal -i recoverit-Wondershare/00000084.mp4 -f null - 2>error-fatal.log

But there are no fatal error reported in error-fatal.log.
Question
What else can I do to fix/play the videos?

**Tags:** ffmpeg, mpeg, vlc, mpeg4


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2021-12-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

I was doing the recovering process in a wrong way. With a better way of recovering, now, 1h17m of the 1h27m video is recovered. Meaning only the last 10m is *not* recovered. The details are here:

<https://superuser.com/a/1691027/571029>


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