I was recording a video with my Droid when it froze. The resulting 3gp file was corrupted. I tried playing it in mplayer and VLC. My naive first attempt at repairing it was to try and rebuild a header based on a known good file. After prepending 12 bytes from the good file, the container was recognized by mplayer:
Playing Videos/VID_20100729_194430-12.3gp.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x3611f60] moov atom not found
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
ISO: File Type Major Brand: 3GPP Profile 4
MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
Seek failed
libavformat file format detected.
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
The ISO: line shows that the container is recognized. After reading the spec a bit, I found out that audio and video are defined in "boxes" in this container. My current understanding is that a simple header isn't going to cut it.
tl;dr summary: Does anyone have any experience, in software or by hand, in repairing 3gp files? Have any suggestions for getting this video playing?
