Hollywood vs Reality: Officer Involved Shootings
A video I found interesting that was recently published by the Post Falls, ID Police Department:
Myths, Misconceptions and Realities Associated with Police Use of Deadly Force
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A video I found interesting that was recently published by the Post Falls, ID Police Department:
Myths, Misconceptions and Realities Associated with Police Use of Deadly Force
Solid State drives (SSD) introduced dramatic changes to the principles of computer forensics. Forensic acquisition of computers equipped with SSD storage is very different of how we used to acquire PCs using traditional magnetic media. Instead of predictable and highly possible recovery of information the suspect attempted to destroy, we are entering the muddy waters of stochastic forensics where nothing can be assumed as a given.
That's a tall order, right? VLC from VideoLAN.org has become the go-to media player for most, as it can play so many things that Windows Media Player won't, and it's free. Well, how does it do that, play more than other players? The Libavformat and Libavcodec libraries, the same ones created by and for the FFmpeg project (and so many other multimedia applications).
DirectShow is one of Microsoft's multimedia frameworks, formerly known as ActiveMovie, which replaced Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows framework. VLC supports DirectShow-based input sources through a module (not very well, IMO, though), but the default Windows version downloaded from VideoLAN cannot reference 32-bit DirectShow filters installed on your Windows PC for audio/video decoding (i.e. filters/codecs registered in your Windows Registry), as the default version downloaded is x64.
As an example, a DCCTV video file exported from a GeoVision system to an AVI file may be using the proprietary GMP4 video codec. In order to play the video, you must install the GeoVision GMP4 codec necessary to decode the primary video stream; this is a DirectShow filter. DirectShow filters can only be referenced by applications that can leverage DirectShow, which we've established, VLC x64 cannot.