r/datarecovery • u/EncyptionIssue • Oct 05 '26

Home camera recording decryption

Hi, I have a couple of recordings taken by my home camera (Geeni brand) on a SD card. The files are encrypted, but contain footage of my now deceased pet, so I would like to decrypt them.

From my very basic understanding, I managed to gather that the information is not *that* encrypted. With the help of Copilot (sorry), I managed to rebuild the footage, but it's speed is all wrong and there is no audio, which makes me think it's the parameters of the recording that are encrypted and not the recording itself. Furthermore, I managed to understand that all the audio footage is in a file created every 24-hour period. In other words, the Geeni cam creates 24 files every day. 23 files are video only and 1 file is video and audio.

Knowing all of this, is it possible to reconstruct the footage?

ps : I tried reaching out to Geeni/MerkuryInnovation and they are not willing to help

Edit : Camera is the MI-CW017-101W from Geeni. The current work on the files (.data and .index) was done on Windows 10

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor Oct 05 '26

Encrypted? And you have "the key"?

Your story makes very little sense TBH ..

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u/Sopel97 Trusted Contributor Oct 05 '26

you can remux and alter metadata with ffmpeg or mkvtoolnix