Exporting Clips Off A Dahua NVR Part Deux…

So, another day, another kid, another requirement to pull video off the DVR…

I totally forgot about my previous post and attempted to use the in-built NVR software (which requires ye ‘old Internet Explorer because it’s an ActiveX plugin) and, to my amazement, discovered that the video extraction actually works (although you still need to manually convert .dav video to something else that’s, you know, a known standard that is universally playable)… I am not sure how I missed this the last time, but oh well…

Anyway, as per usual, the quick instructions are here for posterity and future reference…

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Playing and Converting Dahua NVR’s .dav H264 Videos…

Well, as if fighting the NVR in attempting to export video clips ain’t enough. There’s a need to convert stuff just to play ’em back…

I tried a solution using VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player, but that was a hit-or-miss affair (i.e. sometimes it worked, other times, not).

Enter FFMPEG

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