Untrunc - Restore a damaged (truncated) mp4

REF: https://github.com/ponchio/untrunc

Installing on Ubuntu

If you have an old Ubuntu version or other operational system, you might need to manually install a recent libav version, go to the bottom of the page for instructions.

Install some pre-requisite libraries with this command:

sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev

Download the source code from GitHub at https://github.com/ponchio/untrunc

wget https://github.com/ponchio/untrunc/archive/master.zip

Unzip the source code:

unzip master.zip

Go into the directory where it's been unzipped:

cd untrunc-master

Compile the source code using this command (all one line):

g++ -o untrunc file.cpp main.cpp track.cpp atom.cpp mp4.cpp -L/usr/local/lib -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil