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anthwlock / untrunc

Restore a truncated mp4/mov. Improved version of ponchio/untrunc
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Cannot fix the file #26

Closed enterjoke closed 5 years ago

enterjoke commented 5 years ago

I am definitely not a tech guru and I am definitely new to coding. I really got fixated upon the issue of fixing the broken file in .m4a format. Its size is very small, about 20MB and yeah, I really did my best.

I tried installing VirtualBox just to emulate Linux Ubuntu and used ponchio's instructions but every time I got to compiling step I would stumble upon the problem of not having config.h file. When I used your instructions, the problem disappeared. But another one came up after - Linux cannot open .m4a files and cannot fix it.

So yeah, I just tried to use your instruction on macOS which I am using, but never got any success as Terminal doesn't understand the commands that are in your Building instructions. What am I to do?

It's been almost two days of me trying everything. I tried various libav libraries, tried to translate the linux terminal language to macos terminal language. Updated YASM and so on. i don't know what to do and I am totally frustrated...

anthwlock commented 5 years ago

Linux cannot open .m4a files and cannot fix it.

What makes you think that? You might have to install additional codecs/packages.. But if you use e.g. the vlc player, it should work out of the box.

[macOS] Terminal doesn't understand the commands

I guess because the required build tools are not installed?

There are actually automated windows builds of this fork. Let me know if it helps, and if not add untruncs output here. It would be extra helpful if you'd upload the files you are using.