No matter how many precautions you take, it can always happen that things go wrong when you are in the middle of writing away a video or other file, during the transfer or during a recording, for example due to a power cut or a battery that goes dead, or due to a computer virus, or due to a faulty storage device, or conversion errors. If there is no way to redo the recording or retransfer the file, you can always try to recover the file. There are a few ways of doing this: Handbrake is one way or the repair function of the VLC Player is another one. But when these fail to fix the problem, you can try Repairit, a Wondershare application (should I say service rather?) that fixes broken video, audio and other files. Digital video formats are quite vulnerable and file corruption is often caused by the loss or corruption of important data indices or file headers, that are responsible for the allocation of the video sections within a file, or for the codec data needed to decode and play or process the video. Repairit is a paid service that allows you to upload your broken file and the service then diagnoses whether the video can be repaired, after you get a preview of the repaired video it is up to you to decide whether you want to go ahead. Repairit fixes broken WMV, MOV, MP4 and other files.
It is always better to take care, here are some tips on how to avoid things go wrong with your files: make sure your power supply is reliable, don’t make transfers or recordings on low battery power, make sure your connections are secure, always make a backup copy in the original recording format before converting videos to other formats, use reliable players and media converters or compression tools, make sure your devices are all kept up to date with the latest drivers and antivirus software. But unforeseeable events such as power surges or system crashes can happen and then it is good to know that not all is lost when the files don ‘t play.
Wondershare Repairit is a paid service, for both Mac and Windows, download the application here.
