The thing that tolerates the garbage is the decoder. The format says what’s valid and how to read/write it. Depending on your platform and what codec is used d

The thing that tolerates the garbage is the decoder. The format says what’s valid and how to read/write it. Depending on your platform and what codec is used during playback, the corruption may be handled differently. The player might crash. Best to scrub the file and properly reformat to remove corruption. Another crazy thing - if the corruption is indeed due to fragmentation, the garbage bytes may in fact be another customer’s data! Or your company’s data, or whatever, you just don’t know. You’re handing out random blocks of your disk to a customer, embedded in a video. Depending on the type of business you run, you might not want to do this.