Help with MP4 file! please

Ok, I made a vid with a friend and i used my phone to record it and accidently deleted it from my Samsung G600 phone, =.=

and ive used about 10 programs to try recover it and some of them did recover the dleted video,but all the recovered files cant be played by quicktime and vlc doesnt recognize them
when i use quicktime to open it says:
Error -2048: Couldn’t open the file Video-0035.mp4 because it is not a file that QuickTime understands.

i tried using converters such as 3gp and imtoo mov but they both dont recognize the file and classify it as (Unknown)

anyone know what i can do to make it be able to make it into a playable video again?

thx
friedrice (hope i posted in right part of forum)

try alshow i use all the time opens just about everything
remeber to install divx couse alshows own codec not great but passable but divx improve picture

also its free enjoy

thx for trying but alshow doesnt recognize the file either, can u give me link to try find the codec and might see if installing the divx alshow codec might help it

anyone else have any ideas?

The file header’s probably gone. See my post here:
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/46097p1.html
I know less about MP4 files than I do about AVI’s though. I do believe the header is at the start of the file because I can preview incomplete MP4 file downloads with QuickTime. (The reason why I used to think it wasn’t was because I usually need the footer for MOV files, which MP4 files are derived from - but then again maybe the header can be anywhere in the file? MOOV atom or whatever it’s called).
The steps I outlined may or may not work. I’d suggest calling a data recovery company if the videos are really important. And no matter what you do, don’t overwrite the media.
gspot 2.70 would be able to analyze the file if it was recognized as an MP4. If not, you may have to artificially create an MP4 header like in my other posts (I really don’t know if it will work with MP4 files - because there may be restrictions that keep files of incorrect length from playing - plus I can’t think of a repair/parsing/analysis tool for MP4 files of the caliber of VirtualDub (which is for AVI’s). Just remember to use another cell phone or memory card or whatever to create sample videos lest you overwrite your deleted videos!
I strongly suggest asking the people at the doom9.org forums, because they have a LOT of experience with MPEG-4. Perhaps one of the coding wizards could write up a program to salvage raw chunks of video straight from the media without any header data.

thx anonymous
but nothings working! ive tried ur method the one using MasterSplitter but nothing seems to work!, on gspot it doesnt seem to have a header!!! keeps saying Unknown

so annoying haha

anyone else? or is this problem not doable

oh and doom9 needs 5 days after registration till can post =(

Is the problem solved yet? I have exactly the same like you, fRiedriCe.

how did you recover the files?
ive deleted files and need themback.
ahh!

xxx