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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: DeltaTango on December 22, 2023, 04:17:18 AM

Title: Repair corrupt MP4
Post by: DeltaTango on December 22, 2023, 04:17:18 AM
Hello,

ist there any possibility to repair corrupted metadata from mp4 files with exiftool? I have the problem that exiftool won't write data because of any "truncated atom errors". I am also not able to delete the complete metadata with exiftool.

As workaround I have tried to demux and remux the file with avidemux in copy mode. Then the dates will be written with 00000000 00:00:00. After that I restore the dates with exiftool from the filename. At least that works.
Title: Re: Repair corrupt MP4
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 22, 2023, 08:05:15 AM
Sorry, ExifTool isn't able to fix videos with a truncated atom.  This error likely indicates that part of the file has been lost, and "fixing" this could result in an incomplete file.  ExifTool doesn't want to take this chance.

- Phil