[seanexplodes]

I have received over a hundred Mp4 files from a friend's external hard drive - however the files had recently been the victim of a format, and downloaded software was used to restore the files (to my friends HD) - which were then transferred to my hard drive. I've not been able to get them to work. I have tried Windows Media Player, and followed all the prompts for codecs, downloaded them to no avail. I've tried Quicktime (error 2048) , and followed all prompts to get the files working - with no luck. I've downloaded VLC Media Player - no result. I've also tried converting the mp4 files to AVI - they cannot be converted (an error is recorded). I assume the files have been corrupted in their recovery from formatting (?). Is this common when retreiving files?

I cannot accept defeat yet - there is just too many files (1000's hours of video) to be lost. Can anyone help? Thanks very much in advance!

My Hard drive is Buffalo 1tb 2.0 USB - purchased last week.
I'm running Visa.

[midders]

It sounds like your files are FUBARd; try searching the tools at http://www.videohelp.com/tools
to see if you can find any video correcting apps (MPEG-Corrector.exe is an example). If the headers have been corrupted, then you might be able to restore these and get some of the video back, but it's unlikley that you'll get smooth playback.

Sláinte

midders

[seanexplodes]

I tried the MPEG-Corrector - wouldn't recognise the files. Is there any way to manually fix headers?

Cheers