[FFmpeg-user] Brute-force decoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Laurence Perkins (OE <lperkins <at> openeye.net> writes:

> I've been asked to recover the contents of a disk full 
> of video files where the header information was stored 
> separately from the video data. Unfortunately the 
> header files are not recoverable, although most of the
> video files are.

What kind of files are that?
I don't know of a format supported by FFmpeg that stores 
the header information in separate files (except vobsub).

Carl Eugen