Why when i just leave my camcorder recording until the battery goes can i not playback, i just get a ? boxed?

-Hi Colin, and welcome to Yahoo!Answers:



Most likely, you have a digital camcorder that is tape-less, so when recording it is just like a computer creating a digital "file" (with the audio & video). So, at the end when your batteries "die", the electronics that would transfer the temporary "buffer" with the last part of your sequence to the storage device (flash-memory, Hard Drive, etc.) can't properly save it, and you end up with a corrupted video file (if one at all!).



hope this helps,

--Dennis C.

聽the file is still being added to when the power is cut or battery runs out. Im not a software analyst but that file has not been finalised so becomes corrupted. you may still be able to watch the files on another player but still corrupted files
Why the heck would you let it run until battery rundown? It probably never got the chance to record the "control" information needed to be able to playback anything.