[FFmpeg-user] AVCHD files recover

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

emaggiani <at> libero.it <emaggiani <at> libero.it> writes:

> ok, I've explored these files a little bit more...
> 
> Some of them are valid mpeg streams, so ffmpeg -i outputs
> Input #0, mpegts, from '00016.MTS':

> Then here is my question: these hundreds of little 
> mpeg are eventually the "data atoms" (mdat) of the
> original MP4 file

This is not possible: What you found are (parts of) 
transport streams, every part is playable by itself.
This is generally not possible with mov files, they 
are only playable if they are undamaged / if all 
parts are still where they belong.

(Note that mov files with mdat atoms that are actually 
transport streams do exist but from FFmpeg pov these 
are not really mov files but transport streams: For 
such files, the mov structure is completely irrelevant 
because they have to be treated as transport streams 
anyway.)

Carl Eugen