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by Larry A. Compton

The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) recently published two new documents for public comment; Comments on Forced Minimization Requirements for the Seizure of Digital Evidence and Crime Scene Critical Incident Videography Recommendations and Guidelines. As noted on their site, draft documents will be posted for a minimum of 60 days for public comment.

Additionally, several other documents were recently approved for release by SWGDE, including Best Practices for Photographic Comparision for All Disciplines (v1.0), Digital Image Compression and FIle Formats Guidelines (v1.0), and version 3 of Digital & Multimedia Evidence Glossary, among others. Visit https://www.swgde.org for more information.

You can just press play if you want to, but if you're forensically processing evidence, I wouldn't advise it. Know the playback software, as it is just as important to proper playback and interpretation as the hardware. Take Windows Media Player, for instance.

In the following video I discuss a few quirks about Windows Media Player v12, a shortcoming of the popular metadata tool MediaInfo, and more.

More Articles …

  1. QuickTime on Windows is Dead: Don't Panic
  2. Forensic Multimedia Analysis: Hardware Matters
  3. Sample Aspect Ratio (SAR) and MPEG-4
  4. Apple v. DOJ: Who's the cart & who's the horse?
  5. Square Pixel Sampling & Validation Testing
  6. There is NO SUCH THING as a Non-Square Pixel. There, I said it.
  7. "Hey, Smarty Pants! Thanks."
  8. Digital CCTV Evidence & Aspect Ratio Correction - Part 5 (The End, for Now)
  9. Digital CCTV Evidence & Aspect Ratio Correction - Part 4
  10. Digital CCTV Evidence & Aspect Ratio Correction - Part 3
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