Mpeg 4 movies will not open

So bascially in a nutshell I use Handbrake to take soccer  footage from DVD's and use the footage to make highlight films. I convert to m4v with the h.264 codec and typically have little trouble working with the video from there. However I have two videos that refuse to open they had been working earlier. I have tried multiple applications besides quicktime to open them and they are never recognized. I checked permissions, and noticed that though the mac recognizes them as mpeg4 movies that unlike the videos that are recognized :
the ones that dont work look like this
I am really stumped at what happened and lost one of the only dvd copies of this original video So any suggestions to be able to use this or even view it again would be appreciated.
Thanks

the ones that dont work look like this
I am really stumped at what happened and lost one of the only dvd copies of this original video So any suggestions to be able to use this or even view it again would be appreciated.
It would appear the audio/video compression formats are not being recognized. My normal assumption would be corruption of data and/or headers and would re-extrack/re-convert the source file. (Would normally recommend checking the "muxed" MPEG-2/AC3 or MPEG-2/PCM file for playback before before transcoding if this is not already part of your work flow.)

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