Damaged .avi file - any way to recover?

[FBi7]

Hi all,

A mate of mine approached me for help as he'd accidentally deleted a clip from his camcorder. He didn't know it at the time, so carried on recording during the day.

I have recovered a 783MB .avi file from the camcorder's SD card, but I think it's been overwritten by subsequent recordings on the day.

The file I've recovered wont open with windows media player or VLC media player. But I have 783MBs of something. Is there any way to salvage bits of the footage?

I think I know the answer, but no harm in asking.

Cheers in advance,

FB..

 

[FBi7]

Thanks for replying folks.

I'll have a look at virtual dub.

Format? Not sure. All I know is it's an avi file from an 8 gig SD card formatted in FAT32. If you can give me some pointers to find further information, I can go and check.

Thanks again.

 

[FBi7]

Virtual dub didn't want to know either.