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5 years and indeed no (definite) solution.
as a programmer i've gained alot of knowledge on this subject, and in the mean time i've been able to fix some corrupt files.
generally, IF a fix is possible, it's still alot of work to get it done. and already trying to find-out if it's worth the trouble takes a considerable amount of time.
it all comes down to manually (re)constructing the missing file headers that describe the data contained in the file. this can be more or less difficult depending on several things, such as the codecs used, or if/what you alreay know about the data in the file.
in any case it's a lot of work, which justifies the high price commercial companies ask for recovery of such files.
those 'headers' are usually referred to as movie 'atoms'.
they only get written at the end of the file, and personally, i'm wondering if this is not just a major flaw in the design of the qtmovie-file format, but i lack the knowledge to solidly motivate this.
in short, anyone who manages to develop one solid solution for recovery of all such corrupt files, is probably a very good programmer, but definitely will be able to make good money out of it…
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