Software overview and main features

UFS Explorer Video Recovery is a professional solution focused on challenges related to data recovery from CCTV systems and driving recorders. In addition to all sorts of common digital media, the software makes it possible to restore videos from most surveillance devices, whether they have a regular layout or some vendor-specific file system, like DHFS, WFS, Mirage, HIK, Pinetron or BKFL. Also, the application works with a variety of stream formats and video compression codecs that are usually not handled by common data recovery tools. Even in situations when the footage got corrupted or partially overwritten, the software allows achieving a satisfactory result thanks to its intelligent reconstruction techniques: each frame of a video stream gets validated and connected with the related frames, and then the obtained result is packed in a universal media container file. The recovered videos can be viewed both in the program and with any standard media player. At the same time, the video content of frames is not altered, which allows using the footages as reliable digital evidence.

Equipped with additional tools and options, the software makes it easy to extract videos created on a certain date/by a particular camera, or convert it into a series of still images. Its diverse reporting possibilities facilitate the analysis of the allocation of video frames on the drive, as well as control over the integrity of files.

Bedsides its video-related functionality, the program offers means for operations with specific storage technologies, complex RAID-based systems, encrypted drives, virtual disks of popular virtualization software, disk images, including ones of EnCase and FTK Imager, failing or unstable storage devices.

The most distinguishing features of UFS Explorer Video Recovery are:

Support for a broad range of special CCTV formats
Enhanced recovery of recordings created by vehicle DVRs
Intelligent algorithms for video reconstruction
Automatic repacking of footages into a universal file format
Saving damaged video frames as pictures
Immediate preview of videos, including vendor-specific file types
Optional filters for the date/time range, surveillance camera
Checksum calculation for the obtained files
Inspecting the allocation of frames that constitute a video
Saving a recording as a sequence of images
Work with forensic disk images (EnCase, FTK Disk Imager)
Equally efficient recovery of non-video data
Support for many particular storage technologies
Decryption techniques for encrypted volumes
Work with standard and specific RAID schemes
Detection and assembly of composite volumes
Possibility to process different types of virtual disks
Detection of deleted and lost partitions
Different options for handling the existing file system
Quick and extended variants of file/folder search
An advanced disk imager with multiple parameters
Diverse means for optimal processing of defective drives
A toolkit for hexadecimal data analysis and correction

CCTV support

Video codecs: Motion-JPEG, Motion-JPEG2000, ASF (MPEG 4 Part 2), AVC (h.264), HEVC (h.265), MPEG/MPEG2, h.263.
Audio codecs: PCM, ADPCM, G.711/A-Law, MP3, mu-Law.
CCTV file systems: WFS, DHFS, HIK, Mirage, Pinetron, BKFL, etc.
File systems for CCTV used as a metadata source: all supported general-purpose file systems, UAVtech.
Video stream formats: umv, mdig, rsfm (Rsfs), dch264 (DHFS), ssf, xql, dhav (DHFS), avix1, rim, lvf, keno, aura, human, siemens, hav, axs , idis, idis2, cli_el, lg_tfs, s1, ss_nsys, ndav, ndap, adtssf, govctv, cenova, tango, acumen, ftvt, bnk, everfocus, iseeq, commax, rms, SVN, SHFL, etc.
Video conversion into an image sequence: TIFF/zlib, lossless.

Vehicle DVR support

Video codecs: MPEG 4 Part 2, MPEG 4 Part 10 (h.264), MJPEG, HEVC (h.265).
Audio codecs: PCM, ADPCM, G.711/A-Law, AAC, MP3, mu-Law.
EDR file systems: NxFS, general-purpose file systems.
Video stream formats: QTFF, RIFF, NxFS, etc.
Video conversion into an image sequence: TIFF/zlib, lossless.

Other storages

Supported file systems

NTFS: full support: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage, support of volumes with enabled deduplication.
FAT/FAT32: data access, search for lost partitions, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage.
ReFS/ReFS3: full support: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage, support of volumes with enabled deduplication.
XFS: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage. Support for NAS and custom servers.
HFS+: full support: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery and recovery after file system damage.
APFS: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, recovery of deleted files and recovery after file system damage.
Linux JFS (JFS2): full support: data access, data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, recovery of deleted files and recovery after file system damage.
Ext2-Ext4: full support: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after file system damage. Support for NAS and custom servers.
ReiserFS: full support: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage.
UFS/UFS2, Adaptec UFS: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery for both little-endian and big-endian variations. Recovery after file system damage. Very limited support for deleted data recovery.
Sun ZFS: data access and support of data recovery from simple and stripe ZPOOL, limited support of lost data recovery. Support of RAID-Z (RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3).
Btrfs: data access, search for lost partitions, RAID recovery, deleted files recovery, recovery after format and recovery after file system damage.
Novell NWFS: only data access and RAID recovery (copying files and folders from the NWFS file system).
Novell NSS: only data access and RAID recovery (copying files and folders from Novel Storage Services).
HFS: data access only (copying files and folders from the HFS file system).
VMware VMFS: support of RAID recovery, data access, very limited support of virtual disk recovery.

Complex storages:

Most standard RAID patterns: RAID 0, RAID 1E, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, etc.
Nested RAID units: RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, RAID 50E, etc.
Custom RAID layouts via RAID Definition Language or Runtime VIM.
Non-standard RAID sets: Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID.
Automatic reconstruction of composite volumes: mdadm, LVM/LVM 2 with Thin Provisioning, Apple Software RAID, Core Storage, Fusion Drive, Intel Matrix, Windows Dynamic Disks, Microsoft Storage Spaces.