[Tfug] Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

[Bowie J. Poag]

Much aha... Which political party?

And if I fix it for you, do you promise to stop rigging the voting machines? :)

Sent from my iPad

On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I have a broken .mp4 file on my hands that is critically important to a political thing I'm doing.
> 
> The file is at:
> 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1825088/ScytlBaltimore.mp4
> 
> I've tried using a front-end to ffmeg called "format junkie" to fix this critter and the error it spits out is "moov atom not found".  This apparently means the data might be there, but the video format structure does exist.
> 
> Some google-fu led me to this page:
> 
> http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php
> 
> Awesome!  An open-source util that can cope with this.
> 
> Problems though...
> 
> It needs "libavformat-dev and libavcodec-dev straight from the Ubuntu repositories" and the Quantal that I'm running (latest Ubuntu) can't load those per Synaptic - not without a lot of dependency hell stuff that might break FSM only knows what.
> 
> I have a VM copy of Mint 8 that might, but I can't seem to get Virtualbox to pass it networking so that I could load those and load the build-essentials stuff needed to compile this critter.
> 
> Can anybody help by compiling untrunc and then applying it to that data file!?  I'd be very, very grateful :(.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
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