mp4 files from GoPro found as unusable mov files

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nrigler
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mp4 files from GoPro found as unusable mov files

#1 Post by nrigler »

Greetings!
I used this wonderful program to find files my son accidentally deleted from a Sony Mini SD card he used in a GoPro Hero 3+ camera. It found the .jpg files just fine, but the video files appeared as .mov and are not playable. When I click on them a black screen comes up in Quick Time Player. Is there any way to recover these as .mp4 files?

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Re: mp4 files from GoPro found as unusable mov files

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Unfortunately the video files generated by latest GoPro are highly fragmented. PhotoRec can't recover them.
Some data recovery service including my own http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Service_ ... nn%C3%A9es can recover them.

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Re: mp4 files from GoPro found as unusable mov files

#3 Post by nrigler »

The page you linked me to is in French - does there happen to be an English version? Thanks!

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