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(@bithead)
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I am examining, or at least attempting to examine a Hitachi DZHS300A camcorder/camera. From my research this unit should have a UDF file system on the internal HDD.

I have a couple of programs that are supposed to mount UDF but all I get is "unrecognized."

When looking at the disk in a hex editor I see

*UDF LV Info
OSTA Compressed Unicode

HDD_CAMERA

No Owner Name
No Organization Name
No Contact Information
*HITACHI DVD UDF_FS

repeats several times

*UDF DVD CGMS Info
H4
*UDF FreeEASpace
RTR_EXTN
DVD_RTAV

repeats several times

All of this is padded with 00

Then what I believe is the suspect file (maybe 1 file with three "sections" or three files, I have not resolved that yet)

R_MANGR.IFO
VR_MANGR.BUP
VR_MOVIE.VRO

more 00 padding, then

45545765555456433455 and the rest of the file.

What I don't have or cannot seem to Google is what the header and footer for the three files or sections would be so I can manually carve the file(s). There is however a lot of info on how to play, convert edit, so once I get a file I think I am good to go.

Does anyone have a file like this? My guesses at what to carve have not resulted in a usable file.

TIA for any help.


   
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(@mscotgrove)
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All UDF systems I have seen use a 2K sector size. I would expect to see sector 0x10 (or maybe 0x11) to have the letters BEA at the start.

I am not sure what type of file the .VRO is, but if an MPEG each sector will start with 0x00 0x00 0x01 0xb?


   
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jaclaz
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VRO should be a RAW file.

This may (or completely fail to ? ) help
http//www.cdroller.com/htm/camera.html

http//forums.support.roxio.com/lofiversion/index.php/t28116.html

jaclaz


   
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(@bithead)
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jaclaz -
cdroller was definitely a point in the right direction. Although it did not recognize the camera it did help me pull some files from another source.

I will post some results when I figure out or decipher what I am looking at.

Thanks


   
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