Easily export surveillance video evidence that plays directly in Windows Media Player.
By working with the DVR hard drive directly, DVR examiner can recover video from non-functioning DVR systems.
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Quickly and easily recover surveillance video from password protected DVRs with DVR Examiner.
Try It NowDVR Examiner is a software solution for the recovery of video and metadata from DVR surveillance systems in a forensically sound manner. This “game changing” software can help save your team time and money when recovering video evidence by recovering data directly from the DVR, bypassing passwords to recover video, including deleted video, from a suspect DVR.
By accessing the surveillance DVR hard drive directly, DVR Examiner is able to bypass any system passwords and recover data from non-functioning systems.
DVR Examiner is able to identify the proprietary DVR filesystem used by the surveillance system, which means you do not need to know the make or model of the DVR.
DVR Examiner scans the hard drive to identify recoverable clips. Users can easily sort or filter the clip list to identify the video you need.
Easily watch the DVR video within DVR Examiner, eliminating any need for external DVR Players. Our integration with iNPUT-ACE allows users to easily enhance and analyze the video.
DVR Examiner offers a forensically safe option for surveillance DVR data recovery. Queue exports of native or open video and save time with the included export report.
Discover all of the recoverable video evidence and metadata on your own system.
Traditional DVR data recovery leaves you with hundreds, if not thousands, of proprietary DVR video files. DVR Examiner makes it easy to view, analyze, and categorize these videos in the integrated video player.
Missing timestamps for your video? DVR Examiner can overlay critical (and correct) metadata into the preview for you.
Need to send a BOLO? Need to easily share DVR video with a prosecutor? Easily save a still image or an openly playable video clip.
Use tags to easily mark and locate video clips based on information that is important to your case.
When faced with hundreds or thousands of video clips, it can be difficult to determine which video to review first. DVR Examiner’s new Motion Analytics Engine [beta] enables you to easily identify which clips to review first based on motion activity.
Receive a list of motion events and easily jump to the video that matters.
Filter and sort video using the identified level of motion in each clip to highlight which video clips have the most action.
Use DVR Examiner’s proprietary motion score to identify which clips have more motion activity relative to other clips.
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Looking for a solution for deleted DVR data recovery? On supported systems, DVR Examiner can recover video that is no longer accessible to the DVR. This allows you to recover formatted, deleted, or partially overwritten video.
DVR Examiner has the ability to overlay critical metadata such as Channel and Date/Time during preview, allowing you to easily develop a timeline of events. DVR time set incorrectly? Our metadata overlay can display the corrected timestamp.
DVR Examiner can identify the type of recording for a given video clip. This allows you to easily identify clips that were triggered by motion or recorded on schedule.
DVR Examiner can recover the system defined channel name, giving you insight into the area or view for each video clip.
Trying to recover critical audio evidence? On supported systems, DVR Examiner can recover recorded audio from the DVR.
By accessing the DVR hard drive (or forensic image) directly, DVR Examiner can identify and recover video significantly faster than manually exporting individual clips from the DVR itself.
Easily multi-task with DVR Examiner. Queue up multiple exports, view multiple previews at the same time, and begin reviewing video while the scan is still progressing.
Save time and stop taking notes of every clip you export. DVR Examiner includes a suite of detailed and configurable reports.
Looking to export both playable AVIs and native files? Save time by exporting both formats at the same time.
Stop hunting the internet for proprietary DVR players. DVR Examiner will provide any necessary player to review the native exports.
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Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine which proprietary filesystem is used within a given make or model of DVR so we are not able to provide a complete list of supported systems. Below, we have highlighted some of the most common types of systems that DVR Examiner supports, but the easiest way to find out if your system is supported is to try our free trial!
Swann
Zmodo
Q-See
HIKVISION
Samsung
...and more
DHFS (Dahua)
WFS 1/2/3/4
IFS
HIKVISION
TangoMagic
...and more
EXT 2/3/4
FAT
XFS
JFS
Unpartitioned Space
...and more
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We offer a variety of discounted license bundles with the software, hardware, and user certifications needed to get the most from DVR Examiner.
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The term “inaccessible to the DVR” is used to denote data which the DVR no longer has access to. Sometimes this inaccessible data can be recovered, but it depends on how the video came to be inaccessible, how much recording has occurred since that time, and where the video exists in the filesystem. Learn more about how DVR Examiner is able to recover inaccessible and deleted data.
How can you verify that DVR Examiner is finding all the video on the drive? There are a few ways users can use empirical verification to be sure DVR Examiner is recovering all the evidence you need.
