Saturday, October 10, 2015

MXF video

MXF is a video encapsulation program, and as in many programs, the video is stored sequentially on the camera memory chip.  I have a problem with an exFAT memory chip froma Sony PXW-X70 camera XAVC which had been partially formatted.  All fragmentation information was lost.

The solution was to add a new wizard function to CnW.  This scans the memory chip and isolates key types of cluster, headers, indexes, and video data and trailer.  Once found, these XAVC video files are reconstructed in the correct logical order and video will play.

This is another growing example of video that cannot be recovered by standard data carving methods.  Unfortunately many companies may claim to process such files because they are probably tested by writing files sequentially to a memory chip, and saying that recovery is possible.  True, but this is not the way the camera writes it's data 

3 comments:

  1. Amazing work, In case you need any online converter for Mxf file then use this,

    Simple File Converter

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  2. That converter will easily convert one file into another like these;

    Mov to Flv

    Mpg to Avi

    Mxf to Mov

    Mpg to Avi

    Mid to Wav

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  3. Conversion is one thing, but recovery of a fragmented file, and no working file system is rather different. Unfortunately, since this initial work too many variations of fragemented MXF files have been found, and this feature has now been removed from CnW Recovery

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