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How to play Swf files recovered from CCTV hdd ?

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(@deerajsingh)
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I recovered some .swf format files from a cctv hdd. These files are not playable in any media player . Please help me with these files i need to extract a theft case footage.

 
Posted : 20/08/2020 9:29 am
watcher
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Have you tried the Adobe Flash Player?

 
Posted : 20/08/2020 5:38 pm
jaclaz
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Try with VLC first thing:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

If it doesn't work you can try demuxing the files with ffmpeg, I presume you are in a situation similar to this one:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/394605-how-to-play-swf-files

jaclaz

 
Posted : 20/08/2020 6:31 pm
(@rich2005)
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CCTV systems can be a pain in the backside and often have proprietary formats.

This is quite good and supports a wide variety of them: https://demux.co.uk/cctv-analysis-products/dvr-examiner/

 
Posted : 21/08/2020 11:15 am
(@armresl)
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Posted by: @deerajsingh

I recovered some .swf format files from a cctv hdd. These files are not playable in any media player . Please help me with these files i need to extract a theft case footage.

Always start with the proprietary company and their software. 

Usually you can take a thumbdrive into the unit, format the dates, and download.
OR there is a viewer from a software site to view the files from.

One bad thing about the viewers is, sometimes they force you to look at very small boxes which if enlarged don't scale well.

 

 
Posted : 22/08/2020 3:57 am
(@deerajsingh)
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@watcher i tried dozens of media player but they won't get played.

 
Posted : 22/08/2020 9:25 am
(@deerajsingh)
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@rich2005 yes dvr examiner is good one but it won't recognise the drive if its formatted in NTFS format.

 
Posted : 22/08/2020 9:27 am
(@deerajsingh)
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So finally Mycctv dvr recovery software came to help. I scanned the drive with this and don't no from where it found all the footage in .avi format. All other data recovery software's only found some . swf format files.

 
Posted : 22/08/2020 9:30 am
(@clldll)
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Elecard can play them and

fonepaw video converter ultimate convert them all formats

 
Posted : 22/08/2020 9:46 pm
(@ajay201819)
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@deerajsingh is this software is paid? 

 
Posted : 29/09/2020 3:24 am
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