[FFmpeg-user] repair interrupted mp4?

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Sat Jul 12 17:09:55 CEST 2014


Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I think I've noticed that is ffmpeg is "recording" to an mp4 file,
> but then the ffmpeg process is "killed" the resultant file is
> corrupted/unplayable.

I believe this was fixed some time ago (if encoding stops 
because if an error, the output file is playable) but if you 
mean something like kill -9 or a power failure, the output 
file will be broken.

Carl Eugen





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