How to Fix Corrupted Video Files After Recovery

It happens all the time that you accidentally delete videos, then try hard to recover deleted videos from PC or another drive. Yes, you succeed to get back the videos. However, the recovered video won’t play. When you play it with a video player, it pops up a message, telling you the video is not supported because it is damaged.

Part 1. Why Video File Not Playing After Recovery?

It’s an exciting moment when you successfully find lost or deleted videos. However, sometimes it turns out the recovered video not playing at all. What’s wrong? The fact is that most data recovery software can’t restore a file completely, which means it may get the video recovered, but lose some video information, like the video header. It lacks the advanced technology to resume videos and pictures. Here are the common causes for recovered video won't play.

• Lack header
• Erroneous execution of file carving techniques for header and footer carving, defragmenting the video.
• An unstable internet connection or power supply causes incomplete video downloading.
• Erroneous read and write system operations.

No matter what the reason for the video file not playing after recovery, you can try the following ways to fix it.

Part 2. How to Fix Recovered Video Won't Play

The direct way to fix a corrupted video file after recovery is using professional data recovery software to scan, collect and match the video information, recovering the complete video again. It sounds weird, right? The theory is that the tool can scan and collect the information left for the recovered video, repair the corruption.

iBeesoft Data Recovery is one of the professional data recovery tools that come with the technology for repairing damaged videos, pictures, and videos. It supports all the videos shot by various cameras and drones. You can fully depend on it to fix corrupted videos after recovery. Here in the following are the simple steps for how to use it to repair corrupted videos.

1. Click the DOWNLOAD button to get the program trial version. Install it on your computer. It’s virus-free. Just install it like the way you install other software tools.
2. From the first window, click the "Scan" button beside the hard drive where you have lost or deleted the videos, or where you saved the corrupted videos.
3. Wait patiently for the scanning process to finish. It might take a few minutes for the scanning. During the scanning process or after the scanning process, you can select the result to preview. When finding the corrupted video, select it and click "Recover" to save to a new folder.

Part 3. How to Repair Recovered Video Files for Free

Besides using a recovery software tool to fix corrupted video files after recovery, you can still use free software to learn how to repair recovered video files as well.

#1. Repair Recovered Videos Files with VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is more than a video player. It comes with a video repair function by converting corrupted recovered MP4 and MOV videos into playable videos. Here is the process for how to repair corrupted videos with VLC Media Player.

1. You should download and install VLC Media Player on your computer.
2. Launch it. Select Media > Convert or Save.
3. Browse your computer for the corrupted video to load. After then, select it and click the button "Convert/Save" button at the bottom left.
4. In the next window, you’re asked to name it and find a destination folder for the converted file. From there, you can also select the wanted codec for the video and audio. It depends on your requirements. Save the selections by clicking "Save".
5. Click the "Start" button to convert the corrupted video to another video format. When it is finished, you can open it with VLC to check whether it is playable.

#2. Fix Corrupted Videos with Digital Video Repair

Digital Video Repair, as its name implies, it is a tool to fix videos. It is not a professional data repair tool, but freeware you can use to repair corrupted MP4, AVI, 3GP, and more.

1. Download and install the Digital video repair on your computer.
2. Launch the video repair software on your computer.
3. Browse your computer to load the corrupted video and set up a folder to save the upcoming repaired video. Then, click "Check Errors".
4. Wait for the process to finish, then check the repaired video in the preset folder.

Part 4. How to Prevent Recovered Video Won’t Play

In the above, we have mentioned 3 software tools for how to fix damaged video files after recovery. Though it’s very easy to use the software tools to fix corrupted videos after recovery, it still takes time, and sometimes only when you’re lucky enough, you can successfully repair corrupted videos. In this case, it’s better to learn how to avoid video won’t play issues.

If all the videos are saved on your computers, USB flash drives, SD cards, etc. you should

• Use storage devices properly. Never power off the storage device abruptly.
• make sure the environment is virus-free, making use of security software to safeguard your storage devices.

If the videos are deleted or lost, use professional data recovery to retrieve them. iBeesoft Data Recovery is a good option as thousands of people have proved it can fix damaged videos, pictures, PDFs, Docs while doing the data recovery process.