Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

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casparman
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Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

#1 Post by casparman »

Hey guys!

So... this past summer I was on vacation and I took a great video of a thunderstorm. Eventually I decided to delete it for more space on my memory card, but I immediately regretted the decision. I didn't use the space, so I thought it might be recoverable. I succeeded in recovering pictures from the video (using photorec), but not the video itself. It's a Canon camera, and I believe they use MJPEG videos, so it's understandable the the video is corrupted as it is. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas how to recover the video itself.

I know this isn't an easy problem to solve, so thanks for any help!
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Re: Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Do you have the same problem using PhotoRec 6.14-WIP ?

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Re: Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

#3 Post by Domi »

I'm having the exact same issue. Is it possible that we both made the same mistake in using the software? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

#4 Post by Fiona »

Did you use version 6.14?

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#5 Post by Domi »

I used version 6.14. Are my videos gone for good or is there anything else I can try?
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#6 Post by Fiona »

Is it possible that we both made the same mistake in using the software?
PhotoRec is in any case no mistake.
It's easily going to read your sectors and copies the results/files to another intact disk partition etc..
In your case I have no idea, did you delete something, did you reformat your card/thumb drive (I've no idea what media do you use?).
So diagnose might be different.
Also, did you use/write to your media after your incident?
That's why it's difficult to judge.

Fiona

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Re: Avi video has been converted to a series of JPGES

#7 Post by Domi »

Hi Fiona,
When I said "did we make the same mistake using photorec", I meant that I might not have used it properly. I wasn't sure if I should choose ext2/ext3 or other when running photorec (I used other because it seemed to be the default). I am trying to recover deleted videos from my Canon camera that uses an 8gig Sandisk SDHC card. I used the camera and card many times after deleting the videos I'm trying to recover. The videos only show up as a jpeg and are of very poor quality. Please let me know if I can try anything else. Thanks so much for your help.
Domi

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#8 Post by Domi »

Hello again,
The videos I want to recover are 5-10min long but I only have 1 jpeg for each. If anyone thinks I could still possibly recover them please let me know what I should do.
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Domi

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