Recovered video from SD Card won't play

[blablabla489]

I accidently deleted my whole SD card and then used various programs to recover the data. Almost everything was recovered but, one 128MB video was recovered but will not play, I get the error msg <<Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.>> Other videos recovered played fine but I can't get this one to play. Any suggestions on what I can do or where I could take the data to fix it would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if I can provide any other information to assist in the creation of a solution.There is no suffix on the file so I do not know the format, it was recorded on a cannon digital camera, does that help? I also just downloaded VideoLan Player and tried playing it through that but that did not work either. Thank you in advance.

[anonymez]

welcome to the forum

I also just downloaded VideoLan Player and tried playing it through that but that did not work either

then it's unlikely the data can be recovered. sorry.

[blablabla489]

Thanks for the post anonymez, I also was posting on another site and after awhile a solution was found. Here is a link for anyone who runs into the same problem.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic67028.html

[anonymez]

glad you got it sorted. curious, did VLC give an error message when you tried to play the file? looks like the index was corrupt-- something which VLC should've handled.

[RFBurns]

Another way to find out what it is..is to examine the file through a hex editor and see what the header info says. Then apply the appropriate extension or suffix to the file.