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How to Repair Dash Cam Videos not Playing

Written By Harsha Alamchandani
Updated on 7 Jan, 2022
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Dash cam videos can come as crucial evidence in cases of accidents, road rage, traffic violation, and insurance claims.

Not just these, all those who are fond of long road trips also use dash cam to record their journey and keep the memories alive with their dash cam videos.

But, what happens if a dash cam video gets corrupt?

Yes, with the upsurge in the dash cam usage, there’s also a rise in the complaints of dash cam videos getting corrupt, damaged, or having poor quality.

The corrupt dash cam videos won’t play, show errors, become unreadable, blurry, truncated, pixelated, out-of-sync, no sound, grainy or have other issues.

This post shares on how you can repair dash cam corrupt files and make them perfectly playable again. It further guides on what you should do to prevent the videos from getting corrupt.

Troubleshooting corrupt dash cam videos Files

Why dash cam videos get corrupt

The fault is not always with your dash cam. It’s often due to the mistakes you are making, often unknowingly, while handling your dash cam videos.

Also, dash cam saves its recordings in SD cards which is a vulnerable media. They can easily get damaged, resulting in file corruption and data loss.

Common mistakes that cause dash cam video corruption:

You remove SD card while the device is recording
Using slow and lower Class SD card
You’re recording when the dash cam is running low on battery
Continued recording when the dash cam memory card is full
Memory card is physically damaged
You connected the SD card to a virus-infected computer
Using the same SD card in multiple devices
Overused (exceeded read/write limit) SD card, leading to bad sectors
Any interruption during transfer of files from dash cam to computer
Using a poor quality card reader
Improperly insert or eject SD card from the dash cam

Tips to Prevent Dash Cam Video from corruption

• Park your car and turn off dash cam before you remove the SD card
• Use fastest, preferably Class 10 memory card
• Use large capacity SD card (32GB card can give approximately 6 -7 hours of 1080p recording)
• Carry a few extra SD cards. If any accident or event occurs that you want to keep, immediately stop and swap the SD card in the dash cam to protect the video file from overwriting

How to repair corrupt dash cam video files

The best way to repair dash cam files is with the help of a professional video repair tool, which supports your dash cam video format.

Methods to repair corrupt dash cam video files

Use Video Repair software
Repair with the help of VLC media Player

Method 1: Repair with Video Repair software

Use this method when your dash cam videos don’t play or turn blurry, damaged, broken, truncated, grainy, have missing sound, or throw error while being played.

A professional dash cam video repair software such as Stellar Repair for Video can fix such corrupt video files and make them playable. It fixes corruption in the sound section, movement of videos, frames, video slider movement, and data of video files.

Stellar Repair for Video supports video file formats of dash cam including h264/ 4k/ 1080p videos of AVI, MOV, MP4, ASF, WMV, MKV, MPEG and other file types.

You can repair corrupt video footage shot with any brand of dash cam like Garmin, Aiptek, Cobra, Z-Edge, Nextbase, BlackVue and others.

Both Mac and Windows OS versions of software are available.

Method 2: Repair with VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player has an additional capability to repair corrupt videos. Though, it can only fix minor file issues unlike professional video repair software which can remove severe corruption in dash cam videos.

Steps to repair dash cam video files with VLC media player:

Method 1:

Open the corrupt dash cam video in VLC
Click to follow Tools > Preference > Input & Codecs
Go to Damaged or incomplete AVI file
Select Always fix in the dropdown
Click Save

Method 2:

Open your video file with VLC.
For choosing Convert or Save Click on Media option.
After that add input files or Streams that require to be transcoded.
There upon press Convert or Save.
In the Convert window that shows up, give the file name for the target file.
Click “Edit Selected Profile” option to confirm or change particular profile settings.
In addition you can choose to add a new profile or erase any current profile. After that click Start.

To Sum Up

Don’t forget to try the workarounds like converting the file to another format or playing in a different media player when troubleshooting corrupt dash cam video that are not playing or showing error.

You can test VLC Media Player too, which has often proved successful in repairing corrupt video files.

However, the assured solution, which best repairs any corrupt dash cam videos is a professional repair software like Stellar Repair for Video. The DIY software can fix corrupt dash cam videos that won’t play, stutter, flicker, black out, have no sound, or face other other problems. It can repair multiple dash cam videos at a time.

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About The Author

Harsha Alamchandani

Harsha is a technical expert who loves Mondays, technology and is a big time Apple fan. She knows her way around the data loss problems and is always looking for ways to help out people.

23 comments

jessy says:

February 9, 2024 at 9:01 am

Thanks for these important and actionable tips. This is a such an very informative article!

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1. Aruna Attri says:
  
  February 9, 2024 at 10:17 am
  
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Norbert says:

December 16, 2023 at 3:47 pm

I wanted to try out the free version however clicking the preview does nothing!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  December 16, 2023 at 7:03 am
  
  Hi Norbert,
  Thanks for reaching out. The free version is for trial, and it works in the same manner as the full version. It’s good that you tried the free version, so did you try our Advance Repair feature? If not, I suggest you try it once and see if that works because Advance Repair uses a reference file to repair the video more actively. If the file also does not get repaired, then I am afraid that the video file you are trying to repair is severely corrupt.
  I hope it helps!
  
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Adrian says:

June 18, 2022 at 8:06 am

Terrific work! I have been working on my Dashcam videos for the past two days, and this tool worked and saved extra money for me. Thanks, guys, and I suppose this is the type of info that needs to be shared across the web. Cheers!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  July 5, 2022 at 9:02 am
  
  Hi Adrian, I am glad to know we could be of certain help to you. Though our software is trustworthy, it is powerful and efficient simultaneously. So I appreciate your comment when our software repaired your dashcam videos. Thank You.
  
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2. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  July 5, 2022 at 9:35 am
  
  Hi Adrian, I am glad to know we could be of certain help to you. Though our software is trustworthy, it is powerful and efficient simultaneously. So I appreciate your comment when our software repaired your dashcam videos. Stay tuned for more.
  
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Stephen Cooper says:

November 18, 2020 at 10:15 am

Hi, I get the code error 0xC00d36E5 when I tried to play a video on my dash cam but the recorded video on my dash cam SD card won’t play on VLC play or any other player. Advice appreciated.

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  November 19, 2020 at 5:23 am
  
  Hi Stephen, Error code 0xc00d36e5 is a common problem with Windows 10 users. For an easy, efficient, and simple solution, rely on Stellar Repair for Video to fix the error code. Thanks!
  
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Stuart Winter says:

November 15, 2020 at 10:30 am

Hi, I’m trying to play recorded videos on VLC player in Windows 10 but has no sound. Is it possible to play videos with sound? After repair. Any suggestion would be appreciated!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  November 23, 2020 at 12:06 pm
  
  Hi Stuart, Yes, I would suggest you to try a free version of our software and see the preview of repaired files up to 20% of the total video size.
  
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Simon Swift says:

January 28, 2020 at 11:00 am

I had an issue with my dashcam A119C is one of the videos is corrupt. When I was involved in an accident. I don’t really know why the rest of the videos are working fine. The size of the file (350 MB), I checked the video on VLC and QuickTime but have the same results. Anyone know how to fix the error? Please help!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  February 4, 2020 at 3:49 am
  
  Hi Simon,
  
  Try Stellar Repair for Video to repair corrupt file.
  
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Cynthia Tazewell says:

November 21, 2019 at 10:25 am

I had an Issue with the footage sound from my dash cam playing on VLC media player. I check the file another media player but same issue. I think the file corrupt and I search on net found you blog It’s really informative the method 2 will helpful for me to fix the VLC problem. Thanks!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  November 22, 2019 at 2:10 am
  
  Hi Cynthia, Thanks for reading our blog and sharing your valuable feedback with us!
  
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Michael Frye says:

October 24, 2019 at 10:13 am

I had an issue with Viofo A119 Pro video footage some of videos blurry and distorted and the quality output is not as per my expectation. Can your software helps to improve quality of recorded video?

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  October 30, 2019 at 2:29 am
  
  Hi Michael, We would like to inform you that our software works on “what you see is what you can repair”. That means the files will be repaired in the same manner as you were able to see them in the preview window after the scanning is complete. Thanks!
  
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Florian Ernault says:

October 11, 2019 at 10:18 am

I had an accident but unfortunately one of the video from my dash cam is corrupt. I don’t know what happens rest of my video are play well. I try to play dash cam video on VLC media but found same issue. Any help would be appreciated!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  October 14, 2019 at 6:47 am
  
  Hi Florian, I would like to suggest you can try our software demo version and see the preview of repaired files. Thank you very much!
  
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Thomas Stirr says:

August 22, 2019 at 10:41 am

Hi, I had an issue with USB drive is full, dashcam would overwrite the previous older recording and dash cam icon goes red dot. When I tried to watch dash cam files on my computer found overwrite recording. Is it possible to get back overwritten files? Any suggestion would be appreciated!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  August 23, 2019 at 2:47 am
  
  Hi Thomas, the overwritten video recording hard to repair & recover, I would like to suggest you can try our software demo version the see the preview of repaired files!
  
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