damium

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Weird error copying MKV file

I have some locally stored media i was copying between drives and one mkv file gave this error error reading ‘video1.mkv’: Input/output error and only copied 176/256 MiB; the copied file plays the video only up to a certain point before abruptly closing; I can play the original file fine albeit there is a noticeable hitch at...

damium,

It’s very likely that your disk is failing.

dd if=/path/to/file.mkv of=/new/file/path.mkv conv=noerror,sync bs=4k

Should give you a file with just the damaged bits missing.

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