FORMATS · 15 OCTOBER 2026
Formats Frame Witness recovers
The 13 video and 6 photo formats the Frame Witness scanner carves, how each is recognised, and the result on a test image with 17 generated videos.
Video and photo formats
Video: MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM, TS, M2TS, MPG, WMV, MXF, DV. Photo: JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, HEIC, AVIF. This is the list in the scanner itself (recovery.py); a format that is not on it is not carved.
Pages by format
17 generated videos, one test image
17 of 17 came back with identical SHA-256 in Frame Witness.
| Generated video | Format | Bytes | Recovered | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| h264.mp4 | MP4 | 13,393 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| hevc.mp4 | MP4 | 8,069 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| h264.mov | MOV | 13,444 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| h263.3gp | 3GP | 8,407 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| mjpeg.avi | AVI | 186,894 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| mpeg4.avi | AVI | 92,422 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| h264.mkv | MKV | 11,890 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| vp9.webm | WEBM | 6,076 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| flv1.flv | FLV | 76,125 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| wmv2.wmv | WMV | 23,033 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| mpeg2.mpg | MPG | 104,448 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| pal.dv | DV | 7,200,000 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| ntsc.dv | DV | 5,400,000 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| synthetic-ps1.mpg | MPG | 249,856 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| synthetic.mxf | MXF | 362,041 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| synthetic-h264.ts | TS | 176,156 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
| synthetic-avchd.m2ts | M2TS | 61,440 | i | d | e | n | t | i | c | a | l |
Try it on your own source
Download Frame Witness for Windows (version 1.0.14, Authenticode-signed by Aurelio Avila, SHA-256 fa22d6c7f97da0b4e5efa889e5abb9e4d98815a9b76ac0087424944b21bad6c2). The free account gives a quick scan of the first 8 GiB, up to 100 results, previews and saving files up to 1 MiB each; full scans and larger files need a licence, with current prices on the pricing page.