I have a drive from a Lorex SG19LD804-161 Surveillance system in. The drive is part of a forensic investigation so I cannot play the videos on the subject Lorex. As usual with these systems the videos are run via codecs so the files are fragmented to say the least. I have found another Lorex system for $450 which I can buy at a push, but has anyone had luck with decoding these files without the original system. They look like MOV files (not H.264).

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you can clone the drive and play around with the cloned drive

Been playing around for 5 days now

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According to our experience with Lorex security systems, I'd say it's very unlikely there's a straightforward way to get the recordings as video files. We have always been developing custom software for them.

For the same reason I think that very probably compression is still a proprietary MPEG-4 modification. MOV itself is a container, which can contain MPEG-4 streams as well.

As for buying a working unit, it may be a way to go, if the original drive / image in a (at least nearly) perfect condition.
Anyway, should you decide you need an assistance, I'll be happy to help with this recovery remotely.

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Thanks Dmitri. Will let you know.

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