Repair dashcam footage that won't play.
If your dashcam saves standard video files, we can often rebuild a clip that won't open. Upload it and see a free preview — pay only if it worked.
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There's nothing to repair. If it still looks broken, the issue may be the player, codec, or viewer on your device rather than the file itself.
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A healthy video recorded on the same device — ideally the same settings — gives the repair engine a template to rebuild from. It can unlock repairs that fail on their own.
Unrepaired files are kept encrypted for up to 30 days, then deleted.
FileFix can't fix that kind of file yet.
Right now we repair video, audio, document, and image files (MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, TS, MTS, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, WebM, FLV, M4A, WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, AIFF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ZIP, PDF, AI, HEIC, and HEIF). We're adding support for more formats over time.
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FileFix can often repair this kind of damage if the file is recoverable.
Why dashcam footage gets corrupted
Dashcams record constantly and cut power the moment the engine stops — which is exactly the situation that breaks a video file. When power drops mid-clip, the camera captures footage but never finishes writing the file. The result is a clip that won't open, shows a black screen, or throws an error, even though the footage is usually still inside.
Most consumer dashcams — Nextbase, Garmin, Viofo, BlackVue and similar — save standard video files. Those are exactly what FileFix repairs: we read the captured footage, rebuild the structure the file is missing, and produce a playable MP4. You watch a free watermarked preview and see how much came back before paying.
One important limit, and it's the reason many dashcam repairs fail elsewhere: some dashcams — and most standalone security DVRs — don't save normal video files at all. They write footage into a proprietary format that only their own software or hardware can read. Those are not a file-repair job; they need disk-level recovery. FileFix does not claim to fix them, because doing so would waste your money. If your file is one of these, we tell you and point you to the right kind of help.
What we can and can't fix
We can usually fix
- Standard supported clips from consumer dashcams that won't play after the camera lost power.
We can't fix
How it works
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Upload Drop a supported video file in. It uploads over an encrypted connection. The repair runs automatically — no person watches your file.
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Free Watermarked Preview You see a free watermarked preview and exactly how much we recovered.
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Pay & Download If it's right, you pay $19 once and download a clean, full-quality MP4.
About half of real-world corrupted files repair fully; preview before you pay.
See what's recoverable.
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Questions
If the clip is a supported video file, upload it and the free preview will show if we recovered it. If it's a proprietary DVR file, we'll tell you.
Most fixed security DVRs use proprietary formats we can't repair. See what we can't fix.
Yes — encrypted upload, automatic processing. Originals of successful repairs are deleted when your repair is delivered; unrepaired files are kept encrypted for up to 30 days, then deleted.