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If you're in doubt of downloading software, you can use an online video repair tool, such as restore.media. However, regardless of the tool you use, you will probably need a working reference mp4 file. Video repair tools work by extracting valid metadata headers from healthy files and then replacing...

If you have a sample (playable) file recorded with the same camera and settings, you could extract metadata from it and then insert it into the corrupted MP4 file. There is a free tool, called "Recover MP4" that can do just that. Plus, you will need FFmpeg to merge the resulting video and...

If you have a sample (playable) file recorded with the same camera and settings, you could extract metadata from it and then insert it into the corrupted MP4 file. There is a free tool, called "Recover MP4" that can do just that. Plus, you will need FFmpeg to merge the resulting video and ...

It looks like your MP4 file has damaged indices, hence the time bar issues. So far as I know, VLC can repair such problems, but only within AVI files. You could try to transcode the file with FFmpeg, or convert it with a video converter. If that doesn't help, you could try to use a video repair tool...

Hey Backpills,

If you're fine sharing the file, you can upload it to Google Drive and then PM the link.
I have a credit for a video repair tool, so I can try to fix your video.