Vancouver police says its forensic members working in the U.S. uncovered more than 5,000 hours of video footage of June's Stanley Cup riot -- more than triple its initial estimate.

The team of VPD experts working in Indianapolis to process the massive amounts of raw video has now returned to Vancouver, bringing back thousands of images of suspected rioters committing crimes.

The staggering amount of video footage is the equivalent of 30 Terabytes of data, or 7,500 DVDs or 45,000 CDs.

In comparison, police were tasked with examining 100 hours of VHS footage following the 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot.

Yeo said the VPD is "still on track" to recommend charges to Crown against 40 people on Halloween, and said as many as 700 more people could face charges. Yeo said the investigation could take up to two years to fully investigate.

"In the weeks and months to follow, we will be announcing many, many more charges," he said.

Vancouver members were joined at the LEVA lab by 50 forensic analysts from across North America and the UK to process the footage. More than 4,000 man hours were spent in the lab, with three 14-hour shifts a day.

"Despite the extra workload, the forensic analysts worked around the clock and were able to examine and process the task in two weeks," Insp. Les Yeo told reporters Monday.

Police also announced another "24-pack" of images of suspected rioters posted to its website, riot2011.vpd.ca, on Monday morning.

More than 15,000 criminal acts have been identified through the images, with suspects tagged, Yeo added.

The VPD said the website continues to be its number one investigative tool in the case.

Nine out of 12 suspected rioters put onto the site on Oct. 12 were identified within three days. In total, 42 of the 101 pictures of suspected rioters on the website have been identified. More than 600 website tips have poured in.

Seventy-nine suspected rioters have turned themselves in to police – 65 men and 14 women. The highest proportion of these rioters came from Surrey (20), followed by Vancouver (17), Burnaby (eight), Maple Ridge (six), North Vancouver (four), Langley and Abbotsford (three each), Delta, Coquitlam and New Westminster (two each).

Some suspected rioters are from as far away as B.C.'s Okanagan, Lethbridge and Seattle. Nine more suspects have turned themselves in during the past week.