| Author | Filled K700i = Corrupt 3GP movie? | 
| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | After filming about 45 minutes with my K700i the phone gave a beep and the filming stopped. Out of memory. 
 Went to the file manager in the phone.
 Instead of the video icon it showed a blue
 rotated box - unknown file icon.
 
 Transferred the 26 MB big 3gp-file to the PC.
 
 - Quicktime 7 gives error -2048, not a movie format.
 - RealPlayer gives corrupt data.
 - Stein-converter ignores the file.
 - Xilisoft/imTOO converter says the file is 00:00 long.
 - 3gpToRawAvi crashes with "cannot find command file" (transl.)
 
 Opening the file and a correct 3gp file in hex editor. Seems like the header of the file is OK, but the
 ending is missing.
 
 Is there a way to repair my 3GP movie, like VirtualDub can do with damaged AVI:s?
 
 Hard to do a re-shot of this one...
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| brix25 Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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 | Was it your masterpiece? Liar liar pants on fire/ You burning up like David Koresh- Ghostface Killah | 
| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | The longest movie I've ever made and a nice documentary of how much renovation my house need, and that's much. Thanks to SE I can't see the movie. 
 Tried to read the 3GP standard to understand the file format, and maybe then I could create an application that re-indexed the file.
 
 But I don't really understand the specifications from www.3gpp.org ...
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| ijefferies Joined: Dec 24, 2004
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 | Is it possible to graft the ending from a 3gp file that does work onto your file, and hence removing the corrupted bit? 
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| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | I tried that, maybe I didn't copy so much as I should, or I copied too much. 
 It would help if I could see the structure of the 3GP-file.
 
 To confirm that this is an error I re-did it. I left the camera on and let the phone film the table.
 
 About 45 minutes away the phone gave a beep and the result was the  same. A dot as the icon:
 
 
   
 (Swedish... Kam.videoklipp=Camera videoclip, Skicka=Send, Mer=More)
 
 BUT news: The file is 7.9 MB, and the phone is NOT filled up.
 
 This is a time based error. After about 45 minutes of filming, the filming stops and the file has a truncated ending.
 
 Bug or what?
 
 I also noticed 3gp files are very small. A 1 sec long 3gp is only 4-5 kB. This means it's not soo much information to wade through when trying to understand the file standard...
 
 Are there some kind of explanation of the structure in the 3GP somewhere, so I could try to build the re-index application anyway?
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| World Joined: Jan 17, 2010
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 | I have the exact same problem please please could someone help to play the file it is very important to me, thankyou for your help in advance! | 
| StevenC Joined: Aug 23, 2008
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 | Download AviDemux. Use it to convert and or fix the video. | 
| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | Time flies but I still want to see my 5 year old movie.   
 Tried AviDemux, it fails to open the file.
 Tried MediaInfo, it says the info below.
 
 Format : MPEG-4
 Format_Profile : 3GPP Media Release 5
 CodecID : 3gp5
 File size : 26,0 MiB
 
 
 Tried SUPER©, it runs through the file to the end but ends with "ERROR!", it also tells me it's a 3GP file. Info from it below:
 
 
 Count : 260
 Count of stream of this kind : 1
 Kind of stream : General
 Kind of stream : General
 Stream identifier : 0
 File name : lyd
 File extension : 3gp
 Format : MPEG-4
 Format : MPEG-4
 Format/Extensions usually used : mp4 m4v m4a m4p 3gpp 3gp 3gpp2 3g2 k3g jpm jpx mqv ismv isma f4v
 Format profile : 3GPP Media Release 5
 InternetMediaType : video/mp4
 Codec ID : 3gp5
 Codec ID/Url : http://www.3gpp.org/
 Codec : MPEG-4
 Codec : MPEG-4
 Codec/Extensions usually used : mp4 m4v m4a m4p 3gpp 3gp 3gpp2 3g2 k3g jpm jpx mqv ismv isma f4v
 File size : 27293029
 File size : 26.0 MiB
 File size : 26 MiB
 File size : 26 MiB
 File size : 26.0 MiB
 File size : 26.03 MiB
 Stream size : 27293029
 Stream size : 26.0 MiB (100%)
 Stream size : 26 MiB
 Stream size : 26 MiB
 Stream size : 26.0 MiB
 Stream size : 26.03 MiB
 Stream size : 26.0 MiB (100%)
 Proportion of this stream : 1.00000
 File creation date : UTC 2010-01-17 12:13:21.953
 File creation date (local) : 2010-01-17 13:13:21.953
 File last modification date : UTC 2005-10-14 14:04:33.000
 File last modification date (local) : 2005-10-14 15:04:33.000
 
 
 Tried All Media Fixer, it made a perfect copy of the file without fixing it.
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| Justindeep Joined: Mar 25, 2014
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 | Do you want to repair you corrupted 3GP videos? 3GP file format is very sensitive in nature and highly prone to corruption thus it can get corrupted due to any possible reason. But there is no need to worry because 3GP Video Recovery Software is able to repair and recover any corrupted, broken, or deleted 3GP files instantly. 
 To get more informations visit: http://www.3gp-recovery.com
 
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| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | Yes I want to repair my corrupted video.   
 That link led me to Stellar Photo Recovery, which seems to recover files from disks.
 
 I cannot select the file, only a drive in this program.
 
 I have the file, it is broken somewhere inside, not lost on a drive. But good try.
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| fluke9 Joined: Oct 31, 2006
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 | Have you tried using a player like VLC ??? 
 Available here and totally free. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
 
 It's pretty good at playing incomplete files, maybe worth a try.
 
 This may work, not used it myself.  http://mp4repair.org/pwt6/preview.html
 
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| dotpointer Joined: Oct 15, 2005
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 | Yes I have tried VLC, tried it again now: 
 mp4 error: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov,foov,moof box)
 avcodec error: Could not open test.3gp: Specified event object handle is invalid
 
 I could try mp4repair, but the contents is a bit private - I'm running around and whine about my house... so don't want to risk publish it.
   
 I'm looking for a "video frame sniffer" or something... that could walk the file byte by byte and scan for mpeg-frames(?) even if the beginning and the end are corrupted.
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| Muhammad-Oli Joined: Jun 13, 2004
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 | I don't know for sure whether this would even work but have you attempted to open it in a recent version of Photoshop? I don't know if you can even open a 3gp in it, but all I know is that I have created videos frame by frame in Photoshop before. Each layer in Photoshop is a single frame of the video so you can scroll through the video frame by frame. 
 EDIT: Oh and I just had a thought that maybe you could open it in Flash too. Similar to my explanation of Photoshop.
  
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