How to recover broken MJPEG AVI file after a camera crash

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Published on 2012-10-19T15:46:37Z Indexed on 2012/10/19 17:04 UTC
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I was recording a video when my KODAK EASYSHARE M531 Digital Camera fell to the ground and turned off. When i turned it on nothing happened to the camera but the video file is somehow broken. Obviously the camera did not have time to convert and close it properly.

$file myvid.avi
myvid.AVI: data

where it should be:

another_vid.AVI: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 480, ~30 fps, video: Motion JPEG, audio: uLaw (stereo, 12000 Hz)`

I would like to fix my video which I believe needs to be converted to AVI. Any idea?

VLC does not play the file and returns:

could not determine type of stream

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