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I recently had a HDD crash and was able to recover many of the lost files.

Unfortunately, quite a few were damaged.

VLC does an admirable job "repairing" many of these files.

I am wondering, is there a way to save the repaired file?

If not, would this be a reasonable candidate for the requested features forum?

Thanks

You must transcode or remux

ok,

at the risk of sounding like a noob (which i certainly am with VLC) how does one transcode and remux?

thanks for the help

Well, it is a bit hard. Take an easy remuxing program like virtualdub

Apparently my last comment was saved as a draft??? - Please fix the forums


A direct answer to the question please: How do you save a repaired file with VLC?

If it can't be done, just say so...thanks!

--sout file.avi should fix it.

It really works. Thanks.
It even works through the GUI (Qt4) VLC menu:

Media > Convert / Save > Add... a broken (incomplete) AVI file > Convert/Save > Destination file: Browse [file.avi] Save > [ ] Display the output > Profile - Create a new profile: Profile Name [AVI] / Encapsulation (o) AVI / Video codec [v] Video, [v] Keep original video track / Audio codec [v] audio, [v] Keep original video track / Subtitles [ ] Subtitles > Save > Profile [AVI] > Start > Play as is

Media > Stream... > Add... a broken (incomplete) AVI file > Stream > Next > New destination [File] Add > Filename Browse... [file.avi] > [ ] Activate Transcoding < disable it and better if you select (create&select) some AVI Profile > Next > Generated stream output string [:sout=#file{dst=C:\\video\\file.avi} :sout-keep] < delete ":sout-keep" from the string:
[:sout=#file{dst=C:\\film\\film.avi}] > Stream > Play as is

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