There are several reasons due to which a video file gets damaged or broken such as incomplete download of video file via internet, interruption during conversion of video file, file system corruption/bad sectors where videos are stored, changing the file extension of the video file to other incompatible form, disturbances including power failure while transferring or downloading videos, hardware exception, insufficient codec, media player malfunction, etc.
Once a video file breaks, there is no way you’ll be able to play that video on any media player! Well, it’s not true now. When your important video files get corrupted or damaged then you can give a try for VLC player for repairing broken video files. Since this free media player can repair corrupt video files along with damaged video clips of formats like MOV, AVI and MP4 files.
Method 1: Convert Broken Video into AVI, then Repair
Create a photocopy of your broken/damaged video files and change its file extension to .avi.
Method 2: Repair Broken Video Files in VLC
If both the methods fail to play broken video files then, you can make use of one of the best video repair software- Remo Repair AVI to repair broken video files of different formats like AVI, DivX and XVID.
Remo Repair AVI comes pre-bundled with advanced features that can deep scan and fix broken videos as well as damaged files to play it on personal computers and laptops. The video repair tool can easily fix video files which are broken, damaged, corrupt, inaccessible, unplayable videos and turns it back to its working condition in a very short amount of time. The software proves to be the most efficient digital video file repair tool as it supports all digital video formats of .avi, .xvid and .divx easily at your fingertips. Besides, the application is available for free download through which you can check the capability of the wizard before purchasing its full version. The software is also available in Mac version that can fix AVI files not playing on macOS Sierra, High Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and earlier versions.
Remo also offers a MOV Repair tool edition which fixes corruption in MOV, M4V and MP4 videos. So, try it for repairing corrupt MP4, MOV files with ease.
Step 1: Launch Remo Repair AVI software by double clicking on its shortcut icon. Select your broken video file and click on the Repair button.
Image 1: Main Window
Step 2: The program starts to fix broken video file and shows you the repaired files, once the repair process gets complete.
Image 2: Preview Repaired File
Step 3: Play and Preview the fixed video clip. At last, Save the repaired video file to a new location.
Figure C: Save Repaired File