I recovered some .mov files from my sd card from my digital camera using a freeware undelete program. I used Picasa to download and delete and it didn't sve the mov's so I went back to recover them. Some will play and some will not. I've tried numerous conversion softwares, players, and I even tried screwing around with the hex headers and file endings to no avail (though I was really only guessing there). I tried VLC player and AVIDEMUX as I saw suggested here but neither of them recognize these as able to be opened. They can't be opened, rendered, forced, cajoled, played or anything else that I can see. The file sizes all seem to be appropriate though so it seems like it's just some indicator these programs are looking for that they are not finding. I just don't know what it is. I can open these in a hex editor but I don't know what a typical header and footer should look like. Can someone please help ??!!
I've tried comparing 2 working files in hex to find the common header and end of file data. Then I doctored the file that won't play. It appears to be missing the end of file. But that didn't work either. I went to the quicktime website to see if they had any info on what a header and end of file should look like, but couldn't find much help. I've tried mov to avi conversion programs, quicktime player, VLC player, avidemux, and a million and one undelete/file recovery programs to get these files back in shape. Does anyone have any other ideas for me? Or know the header/end of file hex info required to play a .mov file?
