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GreGorGy

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So these guys I know have this thing that records 8 cameras and it is possible to save the recordings but nothing wants to play them back. It just says H.264 DVR on the device - nothing else. Box, manuals, etc long gone.

So far:
* Handbrake says no
* QuickTime says no


Any ideas?
 
Mine plays videos via a web browser...?
 
This one does too - but only IE and when we need to use that video outside of the browser, it downloads a .mp4 that won't play on anything - that is my issue.
 
I think we have the same one then ;) Let me check quick
 
GreGorGy said:
So these guys I know have this thing that records 8 cameras and it is possible to save the recordings but nothing wants to play them back. It just says H.264 DVR on the device - nothing else. Box, manuals, etc long gone.

So far:
* Handbrake says no
* QuickTime says no


Any ideas?
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My dad has one of these and when we copy any recordings to a flash disk i had the same problem could not for the life of me find a codec to play, till i looked at the actual flash disc we used the PVR created a folder with a player as well as a codec installer so it would play on media player or any other player i had on my PC.
 
Oh, I also tried vlc - shoulda mentioned that...

Thanks sinbad - lemme know.

Isie - lemme see if it has a flash port

Everyone else - sorry for the terrible street lingo
 
Had the same problem and vlc did not want to play it, searched around and the solution was the following

http://superuser.com/questions/261774/converting-or-playing-a-264-video-file

Judging from their extension, these videos probably are "raw" h264 files - they contain just the video data, without any audio and outside of the container.

Because they don't contain any headers, media players are unable to understand their contents - however I believe that you can play such files if you declare that they do contain h264 video !

I can see that you downloaded ffmpeg - you could try to play the video with ffplay using something like

ffplay -f h264 test.264
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GreGorGy said:
Oh, I also tried vlc - shoulda mentioned that...

Thanks sinbad - lemme know.

Isie - lemme see if it has a flash port

Everyone else - sorry for the terrible street lingo
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should have a USB port , and option to record to USB - if its anything like the one my dad has, just record a few minutes of video, the thing took forever to record what my dad wanted.
 
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