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I would like to test my video files which have been recovered by Photorec. Some of the video files have errors. So I want to test them all at once to see if they can be played.

For example, a video file's time "1h30m" had been recovered, but I can just play the first 5 minutes. I get an error after those 5 minutes. Sorry, this video cannot be played. It also gives me a streaming error when using another player. I don't recall the exact error message.

  1. I want to re-order as directories which are called "playable and not-playable".
  2. If there is a another way to recover videos, please share your opinion with me.
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  • I have no idea what you mean by that first point about re-ordering directories. Would you care to explain? As for the second point, I can tell you that you can use Recuva to restore all file types, not just videos or pictures.
    – Samir
    Jul 5, 2015 at 22:39
  • As for the original problem, I suggest you create a backup for the next time this happens. When it happens again, you will be prepared to restore the files from backup and you can skip this recovery step altogether.
    – Samir
    Jul 5, 2015 at 22:41
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    Since an error can occur anywhere in the video, an obvious solution is to watch each one all the way through, maybe using some type of grid to dispaly many at once. Are you talking about just evaluating ones the recovery software says were not successfully recovered, or are you looking for some way to evaluate each video programatically to detect whether it contains any errors? You apparently already know that some contain errors, so whether or not they are playable would seem to require playing.
    – fixer1234
    Jul 5, 2015 at 22:44
  • I want to seperate it as 2 directory and 1. directory is called playable 2.directory is called broken-videos. I have archives of movies. There are a LOT of mp4 files(about 1000). And some video doesn't playable after x mins later.
    – makgun
    Jul 5, 2015 at 22:44
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    Photorec is a respected program. Sammyg mentioned Recuva, which is another (free), highly regarded program. These programs can only recover the data that's there; there isn't much they can do about data that was previously corrupted, or cross-linked files, etc. If Photorec recovered files, it's pretty likely that any other program that was able to recover the same files would recover the same data.
    – fixer1234
    Jul 5, 2015 at 23:18

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