Infinadyne - CD and DVD Inspector Software

CD/DVD Inspector is a full function software product for intensive analysis and extraction of data from CD-R, CD-RW and DVD media. Tailored for professionals in data recovery, forensics, and law enforcement.

CD/DVD Inspector 4.0 has been released!  Version 4 has a number of exciting features, including:

• Supports all optical media: CDs, DVDs, HD DVD and Blu-Ray.
• Integrated report generator with direct-to-print, HTML, text and CSV output formats.
• Consoldated media error reporting - this puts a list of all errors that occur while copying files in a single window.
• Support for E01-type image files (read only)
• Create files to represent data in areas not referenced by a file system
• SHA1 hash values for files and the entire disc
• Thumbnail format display for files

Fully compatible with Windows 95 through Windows Vista.  We strongly recommend Windows 2000, XP or Vista for this product.

Now available - Robotic Loader Extension. This is the tool to automate your handling of the massive quantities of CD and DVD evidence that is being collected. Please refer to the FDA-100 product information page in the “CD & DVD Analyser” section of the site.

AccuBurn-R has been functionally enhanced to assist forensic professionals with CD and DVD evidence.  Now, AccuBurn-R for CD/DVD Inspector will produce exact copies of discs that have been imaged using CD/DVD Inspector. 

All types and formats of discs are supported, including VCD, Karaoke, DVD Video (unprotected) and user-written drag-and-drop discs.

Note that this is not the same product as the consumer version of AccuBurn-R.  The consumer version of AccuBurn-R does not have the ability to write discs from CD/DVD Inspector image files.

Vindex is short for "Video Indexer" and that is what it does.  It plays videos at the highest possible frame rate (up to 64 times the normal playing speed) and captures significant changes in the frame considering these to be "scene changes".  The result is a display on the screen of a relatively small number of frame thumbnails showing you the significant action in the video - without having to sit through the entire thing yourself. 

It is quite a bit different than simply playing the video at high speed because that involves simply skipping frames and presenting the frames that are played at about 1/30th of a second each.  Easy to miss something that way.  Vindex doesn't miss things like that at all.

Vindex uses some fairly sophisticated math to notice changes in the video frame-by-frame and applies a trend analysis so as not to miss relatively subtle changes that may not count as a real "scene change".  This is done so as to miss very little and capture a full-resolution still frame for each section of the video that is "significantly different". 

The result is a set of frames representing the entire content of the video without having to watch all of it at a slow playback rate.  With the trend analysis it is possible to have very simple controls that do not have to be tuned for each video.

For each frame you can individually copy it to the clipboard, print it out or save it as a JPEG picture.  You can also produce reports showing all of the frames.  You can even exclude frames from reports that aren't significant to you but Vindex picked.

Vindex also includes a player - double-click any frame and play the video from that point.  Options are provided to control how far before and after the selected frame is shown.

If you have a lot of videos to process, you can also run them all through in a batch and have reports saved to the same folder as the video files.

Do you think this might save you some time?  We think this is going to make a significant difference in how you work with video.

Vindex has both a 32-bit and 64-bit version now to take advantage of the full capabities of your computer with 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Recover pictures and files from all types of flash media.  Create hashed image files, restore image files to media.

Simple, yet effective data recovery includes sophisticated data carving.  

Fully compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista - not Windows 95, 98 or Me.

iCatch is an image comparison tool which is unlike anything you have seen before.  It is faster, more capable and designed specifically for the forensic environment.

What does iCatch do?  It compares images against information in a database to locate similar images.  The result is for the first time you have in your hands the potential to locate significant images on a subject hard drive without spending hours examining thumbnail pictures, trying to separate the "wheat" from the "chaff".  iCatch has the capability to do a great deal of this separation for you, automatically and without human guidance.  The results of the comparison are displayed in a ranked list with the most similar images at the top.  This list can be very large - we have run tests with over 100,000 images in a single run against a database of more than 500,000 images.

iCatch uses unique techniques to search the database such that it is possible to have extremely large databases and still perform very quickly.  Other image comparison software begins to degrade when the number of images being compared against increases.

How would you use this?  Assuming you have a collection of pictures of fur coats and you trying to establish if a hard drive contains pictures of similar coats involved in illegal activities.  If there are a few hundred images on the subject hard drive, this is a reasonable task for a person.  When there are 30,000 digital photographs on the hard drive in no apparent organisation this becomes a significant task.  With iCatch is takes about 2 minutes to set up and can then run unattended until it finishes.  With appropriate hardware, iCatch can process 40,000 images per hour or more.

There are other types of image-related cases that this tool can be even more valuable for.

iCatch supports .ART, .BMP, .GIF, .JPEG, PNG and .TIFF as well as raw camera files from over 125 different digital cameras.  iCatch automatically processes images that are in ZIP archives.

iCatch includes the ability to export image information (but not the images themselves) from its database.  This can then uploaded to a Shared Database Server and updates to your database downloaded.  The advantage of this is a mechanism for sharing image comparison data between organizations without the need for sharing the actual images themselves.  iCatch maintains full tracking information in the database when additional information about an image is required.

There are two separate products in the iCatch family:

• Private iCatch
  This is designed for use by a single person on a single computer, possibly a notebook.  Performance will not be optimal in this configuration, but it requires the least resources.
  There is a minimum requirement of a 2 Ghz clock speed and 1024MB of RAM.  A dual-processor machine will help as well.
• Team iCatch
  Best performance.  Requires the use of a separate database server.  Designed for multiple users sharing the same database.  Eliminates all synchronisation issues between different workstations.