Same problem here. Over the past 3 months, i recorded 30 videos in HD, about 30 seconds each video (mostly of my 10 month old son). They all worked perfectly until today, when 10 videos went corrupt (in the video gallery, the thumbnail is a gray box and they wont play). I put them on my PC, and the corrupt files don't have a thumbnail and don'e play.

Any help would be appreciated:
1) What is causing this issue
2) Is there any way to prevent in the future
3) Is there a way to fix my video files that are currently corrupt?

Thanks,
-Lee

 

One video plays back for about 3/4 of its length, and then I get an error saying the video cannot be played. Any subsequent videos won't play at all and get the missing icon described above. As of today, the issue has spread to photos that I took since the first problem with the video as well.

Any fixes?

 

With mine, it only occurs when I take long videos, over 20 minutes or so. The first time it happened, I was actually able to play back the first 5 or 10 minutes of the video, and then it would just stop. Same exact thing happens once I move them to a computer, where QuickTime plays them up to the exact same point and then stops.

While I had that one long video saved on my phone, it seemed to cause problems with other videos and pictures too. Once I moved that one off the phone, problems with other pictures and videos (shorter ones) went away.

However, any video that I attempt to take that is over 20 minutes now won't play back at all, showing the exact same symptoms as described above.

Some other notes: I have a 30GB SD card, so space isn't the issue. This all started only after the Android 2.3 upgrade, but then again, I'm not sure I took any long videos before that.

 

My daughter and I were at Disneyland a couple weeks ago and we both shot some videos with our Evo Shifts. FYI I have the Gingerbread update, her phone doesn't. One of the videos we shot with her phone which was perhaps 2 minutes long (it's about 15MB), worked just fine when we watched it immediately afterward, but when she tried to view it again that night or the following day it wouldn't play. When she pulled it off the phone and tried to play it with VLC and other media players, again, no dice. She sent it to me and I was unable to open it with anything, and it's pretty obvious it's corrupted. Somehow the file got corrupt WHILE it was on phone, and in a very short time period as opposed to weeks or months later (which still wouldn't be acceptable). We both have popular virus scanners on our phones, but I'm unaware of any phone viruses anyway that go around corrupting video files.

If anybody has experienced their videos getting corrupted and becoming unplayable, while they're on the phone, please post so we can find out if there's a larger problem.

 

Been having the same problem off and on on my moto DX. Don't have a solution but I did discover if you immediately go to Advanced Editing you can still play the video. Unfortunately saving it as HD from advanced editing doesn't fix the problem. However I can successfully save VGA resolution fine.


I've also tried looking at these corrupted video files using ffmpeg. It complains of a missing MOOV atom. Most references to this suggest to use a HEX editor to find the start of the mp4. PITA.