Treasured's Movie Repair Guide -- GoPro HERO

Vendor: GoPro

Models: HD cameras

Status: Routinely repaired.


GoPro HERO is a "wearable camera" that can easily be mounted on helmets, vehicles and be operated while doing your favorite extreme sport.


GoPro HERO can record in fives modes: R1 (848x480), R2 (1280x720 at 30 frames per second), R3 (1280x720 at 60 fps), R4 (1280x960) and R5 (1920x1080).

It creates MPEG4 .mp4 files containing a H264 video track and audio encoded in AAC format.


Failure modes:

The causes of failure reported by GoPro HERO users with damaged files are: 


Repairability:

The damaged files cannot be opened because recording did terminate abruptly: While the media (video and audio) is present and not corrupt, the index and header of the movie indicating what the data means, is not present.

Repair consists in reindexing the movie.

Due to recording mechanism, last seconds of action may not have been recorded.


PRICING

Damaged files from GoPro HERO cameras are detected as Brands by Treasured, and as such have an affordable pricing.

See Pricing Chart.