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Tried this on a broken recording made by my Sony Xperia smartphone, which was not finished correctly due to the camera app crashing. The file wouldn't play in any player or editor I tried (VLC, MPC-HC, MPlayer, WMP, Avidemux, VirtualDub) and MediaInfo recognised no streams.
This repair utility asked for the broken file and a errorless reference recording made with the same camera. One click later and it started analysing and reconstructing the file. The trial version is limited to recovering 50% of the video's length. That amounted to 5 minutes, and the recovery was done in around 20 seconds. The resulting file seems fine and plays in all players.
Very good marks for it doing what it actually does, but very low marks for the value for money ratio. I understand that what the tool does might be very valuable in certain situations, but I don't condone profiteering from people when they are desperate, as the tool doesn't really do anything so special to warrant the steep price (you see a lot of generic file system recovery tools doing the same, asking exorbitant prices for features that other tools do for much less, or even free). Hence, I opted to not register and instead look for an alternative tool. If the price doesn't bother you though: this tool does what it promises to do, does it quickly, and you can check whether it will work for your specific file(s) thanks to the trial. |
