Corrupt a Video File Online
Corrupt an MP4, MOV, MKV or AVI video online for free. Destroys the moov atom so no player can index or play the stream.
- Sin subidas
- Sin límite de tamaño
- Sin registro
Corrompe tu archivo video
Ajustado para .mp4, .mov, .mkv, .webm, .avi, y funciona igual de bien con cualquier otro formato.
Por qué los archivos video son difíciles de corromper como es debido
Video containers are designed to survive damage, a player will skip a broken region and keep going. What no player can survive is losing the index. In MP4 that index is the moov atom, and destroying it makes the file unplayable everywhere.
Qué destruye esta herramienta
- The ftyp box. The brand identifier at the start of the file is overwritten, so the container type cannot be determined.
- The moov atom. The movie header holding the sample table, timing and codec configuration is destroyed. Without it there is no way to locate a single frame.
- The mdat payload. Entropy is scattered through the media data, so frame-carving recovery tools come back empty.
- Matroska and AVI. MKV and WebM are targeted through their EBML header and segment info; AVI through its RIFF chunk headers and index.
Qué verás después
| Aplicación | Comportamiento |
|---|---|
| VLC | "Your input can't be opened", VLC is unusually tolerant and still refuses. |
| QuickTime / Windows Media Player | "The file is not a movie file" or an unsupported-format error. |
| YouTube / social uploads | The upload completes and then fails processing. |
| File manager | Generic video icon instead of a preview frame, and no duration shown. |
Motivos habituales para hacer esto
- Testing how a video platform handles a malformed upload.
- Verifying a transcoding pipeline fails cleanly and reports the reason.
- Producing a realistic damaged recording for a recovery-tool demonstration.
- Checking that a media player surfaces a useful error rather than freezing.
Cómo corromper un archivo video
- Suelta tu archivo .mp4 en la caja de arriba, o haz clic para explorar.
- Deja el nivel en Standard salvo que quieras un daño parcial (Light) o necesites derrotar al software de recuperación (Heavy).
- Pulsa Corromper archivo. El procesamiento ocurre en tu dispositivo, así que termina casi al instante.
- Descarga el resultado. De forma predeterminada conserva el nombre de archivo y la longitud en bytes originales.
Preguntas frecuentes sobre Video
Will the video still show its duration?
No. Duration lives in the moov atom, which is destroyed. File managers show the correct file size but no duration or resolution.
Can recovery software rebuild it?
At Light level, sometimes partially. At Standard and above the sample table and media payload are both destroyed and nothing meaningful comes back.
Does it handle very large video files?
Yes. Processing runs in 8 MB slices, so multi-gigabyte files are handled without exhausting memory, and since nothing is uploaded, there is no transfer time.
Which containers are supported?
MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, WebM and AVI have dedicated profiles. Anything else falls back to a generic profile that still breaks it.