Abstract: The idea behind this technique is to recover the damaged or corrupted video file for forensic purposes. The concept used in this process is to recover the damaged or corrupted video using frame structure. The previous techniques were used to recover the corrupted or damaged video using file structure .The proposed technique addresses how to extract video frames from a part of a video to be restored and recover the corrupted or damaged video and then how to connect extracted video frames together according to the codec specifications. Experiment results shows that the proposed technique successfully restores corrupted or damaged video files.

Keywords: Video file restoration, frame-based recovery, video file specifications, corrupted video data.