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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.
Don’t waste time trying to guess or recover DVR passwords. You can easily bypass passwords with DVR Examiner.
Recover video from Physical Hard Disks, E01 Image Files, Raw (dd) Images and any other mounted image format.
Quickly determine which video to review with video thumbnails. Identify the appropriate area and time before reviewing video.
Is the DVR showing an incorrect date or time? Use the simple offset configuration options and let DVR Examiner correct the right times for you.
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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At the heart of DVR Examiner is its ability to read a proprietary DVR filesystem and display and extract the data contained on the device. This post touches on some of the first steps our team takes to understand how each different filesystem works.
There are several different methods commonly used when recovering video evidence from DVRs. DVR Examiner is a useful tool because it allows you to recover the video fast – usually much faster than traditional methods – and in a forensically sound manner. Still, there is no one solution for every case, and it’s important to know what to do when DVR Examiner doesn’t work as you might hope.
Depending on the file system of the DVR hard drive you are scanning, you may come across a distorted split frame video clip when previewing. At first glance, it appears the same video frame is displayed twice, however, what you are seeing is half of the frame displayed on the top and half of the frame displayed on the bottom.
We want to help make your video recovery process as seamless as possible, which is why we’ve included so many different ways to filter and review the clip list. In understanding how this filtering process works, you can save even more time when recovering valuable video evidence.
The “aspect ratio” button in DVR Examiner 2.5 is designed to detect cases where the frame appears to be significantly too short, and will adjust the frame so that it appears much closer to the correct size and aspect ratio. Learn more in our latest blog.
Within the DVR Examiner Clip List Grid there is a field for the “clip status”. If the filesystem you are processing with DVR Examiner has support for inaccessible/deleted files, the information on these files will be provided here. This field will provide insight into how the clip was stored on the hard drive, and whether or not you will be able to recover it with DVR Examiner by determining if the clip is available, accessible, inaccessible, partially inaccessible, or a clip fragment.
