Trying to recover AVCHD video files deleted by mistake (actually the card had been formatted in the camera) I realized that the files seem to lack recording date and time. I could also recover some CPI clipinfo files, and I was hoping to correlate the MTS with the CPI to recover metadata maybe.
Unfortunately:
% file /mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1/f10828928.cpi
/mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1/f10828928.cpi: AVCHD Clip Information
% exiftool -e !!:$
exiftool -e /mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1/f10828928.cpi
ExifTool Version Number : 10.80
File Name : f10828928.cpi
Directory : /mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1
File Size : 448 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Permissions : rwxrwxrwx
Error : Unknown file type
I know my version of exiftool is old, but the latest version also does not know the file format:
./exiftool -e /mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1/f10828928.cpi
ExifTool Version Number : 12.15
File Name : f10828928.cpi
Directory : /mnt/recovered/recup_dir.1
File Size : 448 KiB
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:01:11 23:51:27+01:00
File Permissions : rwxrwxrwx
Error : Unknown file type
Currently ExifTool doesn't support reading CPI files. I did some Googling and can't find any details about this file format. Also, I only have one sample. If you could send me a few more I will see what I can do about extracting information from this type of file. My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com
- Phil
Hi, may I send you some Sony .cpi files for you to try and get some metadata from them?
Sure!
I got the files, thanks.
I've added this to my to-do list, and will look into it when I get a chance.
- Phil