How can I Recover avi

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How can I Recover avi_tmp file

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mconn

2007-07-18 15:32:05 UTC

My laptop powered off while Windows Media Center was capturing a Firewire
stream from a video camera. I have a 98gb avi_tmp file on the hard drive. How
can I convert this to an avi file?

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

2007-07-20 21:18:13 UTC

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:32:05 -0700, mconn

Post by mconn
My laptop powered off while Windows Media Center was capturing a Firewire
stream from a video camera. I have a 98gb avi_tmp file on the hard drive. How
can I convert this to an avi file?

Oh, just re-run the tape and try again. It will take 1 hour max,
because DV playback and import is exactly 1:1

Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

mconn

2007-07-21 13:04:02 UTC

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Thanks Neil,
This was a camera feed from a live event, I wish it was a tape. I thought
that there would be a program that plays the video file with corrupt or
incomplete headers, but I haven't found 1 that works. I knew I was in trouble
when the google search for "avi_tmp" returned zero results.

Post by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:32:05 -0700, mconn

Oh, just re-run the tape and try again. It will take 1 hour max,
because DV playback and import is exactly 1:1
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

2007-07-21 20:35:45 UTC

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Oh, I see. I thought you meant you captured the live event to tape,
while feeding it to the PC over firewire ! Hmm

VirtualDub is by far your best bet for recovery
http://www.virtualdub.org/

It's likely the file got the initial AVI headers placed at the start
of the file, then followed by the raw DV data packets. Before doing
*anything*, make a complete copy+paste of the temp file to avoid
overwriting it in any more mishaps.

Then rename the copy to end in .avi and load it into VirtualDub.

From there if it loads, you should be able to export to a wide variety
of compressed and uncompressed formats, with the file data being
correctly closed (although the last vido frme may be corrupted).

The moral of the story of course is (1) always make sure you have a
backup plan and (2) turn off screensavers, auto power settings and
keep your device plugge into the mains ;-)

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:04:02 -0700, mconn

Post by mconn
Thanks Neil,
This was a camera feed from a live event, I wish it was a tape. I thought
that there would be a program that plays the video file with corrupt or
incomplete headers, but I haven't found 1 that works. I knew I was in trouble
when the google search for "avi_tmp" returned zero results.

Post by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:32:05 -0700, mconn

Oh, just re-run the tape and try again. It will take 1 hour max,
because DV playback and import is exactly 1:1
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Max Melkersson

2010-08-17 18:11:29 UTC

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I imported a live video from video cam and stopped the process and then clicked finish in the Windows video import program. Normally this results in a perfectly fine video. The program stopped working however and I have ended up with a avi_tmp file on my external hard drive. I tried the virtualdub but no luck retoring it or converting any of it into a avi file - unfortunately... any tips anyone? It's a quite big file.... Has anything happened since the last post on this subject matter.

Thanks a lot for any hints and tips.

Max

Post by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:32:05 -0700, mconn
Oh, just re-run the tape and try again. It will take 1 hour max,
because DV playback and import is exactly 1:1
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Post by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
Oh, I see. I thought you meant you captured the live event to tape,
while feeding it to the PC over firewire ! Hmm
VirtualDub is by far your best bet for recovery
http://www.virtualdub.org/
It's likely the file got the initial AVI headers placed at the start
of the file, then followed by the raw DV data packets. Before doing
*anything*, make a complete copy+paste of the temp file to avoid
overwriting it in any more mishaps.
Then rename the copy to end in .avi and load it into VirtualDub.
From there if it loads, you should be able to export to a wide variety
of compressed and uncompressed formats, with the file data being
correctly closed (although the last vido frme may be corrupted).
The moral of the story of course is (1) always make sure you have a
backup plan and (2) turn off screensavers, auto power settings and
keep your device plugge into the mains ;-)
HTH
Cheers - Neil
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:04:02 -0700, mconn
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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