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paulfromreno · May 9, 2014

I've seen many people post questions about viewing security DVR files, but my question is about converting many files for dvd authoring.

I would love to find a way to batch process and convert these files. It would save me hours of manual conversion -- one at a time!

Any thoughts?

Someone Somewhere · May 9, 2014

I'm fairly sure you can drop hundreds of files at a time into HandBrake, then convert them all to predefined settings.

You could also call it from the command line.

paulfromreno · May 10, 2014

Someone Somewhere :

Thank you for your quick response. I've just downloaded Handbrake for Windows, and gave it a quick test. Looking at the log files, Handbrake doesn't seem to like the .264 file.

[20:18:06] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] pps_id out of range
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] slice type too large (0) at 0 0
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] slice type too large (0) at 0 0
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 01D0B9C0] no frame!

There are more lines indicating failure.

Bummer.

Someone Somewhere · May 10, 2014

Hmm. Looks like your security cameras aren't sticking to the standards, or something.

Can you set them to record to a different format?

VidCoder is a different front-end on Handbrake; it might or might not fix it.

paulfromreno · May 10, 2014

Someone Somewhere :

I could only wish for a different format. I can easily open the files with VLC using the demux h264 switch, and the AVIGenerator converts them without a problem.

The only thing I haven't tried, was to pull the drive out of the DVR and seeing if could mount the drive on my linux box -- Just to see if the raw files were in a different format. Somehow, I think this would be close to a waste of time.

Initially I was hoping to find command line arguments for AVIGenerator, but the '/?' did nothing.

Needing to convert 10 to 15 hours of daily capture is very time consuming.

The application is to use the Swann system as a cheap time lapse camera/recorder. I should probably look for a hardware solution for my cams, and use a different method for capturing.

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