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mindyourlanguage

Hello all

I've hunting aroud the web to get this filr to play or to convert it to AVI.

It's a video file of my DVR, the extension is just .264, I've trid allsorts to sort this file out with no luck........heeeeeeelp

ddoris

Will it play with vlc ?

weegie.geek

The name of your DVR would probably help. A lot of these things record in bizarre codecs/containers, often proprietary. We can assume it's h264 video in the container, but without knowing about the container, you're stuffed.

fwor

Was your DVR supplied with a utilities CD?

If so, the codec you need is probably on that, or will be available as a download from the maker's support website.

mindyourlanguage

ddoris wrote: »

Will it play with vlc ?

No it will not

I bought the player of ebay and it came from China, on the manual its called H.246 DVR

ddoris

Have a look at this thread it needs .net 2.0 - http://www.videohelp.com/tools/avc2avi

totalsolutions

It should just play h.264 is a standard. iTunes runs it as does iPod/touch/pads. Quicktime perhaps then.

mindyourlanguage

ddoris wrote: »

Have a look at this thread it needs .net 2.0 - http://www.videohelp.com/tools/avc2avi

I have .net 3.5 and the software dosn't load, does it need to be 2.0 for it to work?

weegie.geek

totalsolutions wrote: »

It should just play h.264 is a standard. iTunes runs it as does iPod/touch/pads. Quicktime perhaps then.

h264 is a standard, yep.

the fact that the extension is .264 doesn't mean it's even h264 compliant. It also tells us nothing about the container.

@ OP - try opening the file in mediainfo and see what it makes of it. There's a possibility that it's a standard container just renamed.

ddoris

Guess you need .net 2.0 as that thread says tried with .net 4.0 and got application error .

mindyourlanguage

weegie.geek wrote: »

h264 is a standard, yep.

the fact that the extension is .264 doesn't mean it's even h264 compliant. It also tells us nothing about the container.

@ OP - try opening the file in mediainfo and see what it makes of it. There's a possibility that it's a standard container just renamed.

Right, this is what I got;

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [EMAIL="Baseline@L2.0"]Baseline@L2.0[/EMAIL]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 288 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.222
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive