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.
Have you tried the Adobe Flash Player?
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
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/
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.Â
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.
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@watcher i tried dozens of media player but they won't get played.
@rich2005 yes dvr examiner is good one but it won't recognise the drive if its formatted in NTFS format.
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.
Elecard can play them and
fonepaw video converter ultimate convert them all formats
