On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:36:04PM -0400, Thomas Farrell probably wrote: > I was thinking I could take a working avi and extract the first 512 > bytes and insert it into the beginning of a bogus file. Does anyone > think this may work?
Given the number of compression formats actually hiding under the '.avi'
extension, and that the most sensitive information is usually in the
header, I doubt that. Unless you know for sure what should be there,
this won't work.
> Any idea how I can accomplish this?
dd(1). Especially `seek=...', `skip=...' and `conv=notrunc'.
> Do I smoke too much weed?
Only if you think you're going to guess 512 bytes of the header from
scratch:)
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