create AVI file for playback on DVRs

maximus7

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How do I create the type of AVI file that will play back in an AIPTEK 3300 or Grandvision Cooldv 550

I sent this email to AIPTEK but if anyone else can tell me I would like to get email from you.

I would like to find a program that can create the type of AVI video file that the Aiptek DV3300 ( equivalent of the Grandvision Cool DV 550 ) creates.

Do your software programmers have any information on how to create such an AVI file so I can then upload the AVI file and then I can play it on the camera playback mechanism? I can take videos that I took with the camera, download them to my computer, delete them from the camera, and later on take the video and upload it to the camera and play it again. I want to create ssuch an AVI file on my computer and then play it in the view finder of the camera so it would work like a video player. The camera also can output the video to a tv or vcr with cables as well.

If you find this out it would really make this device a useful video player, just like it now plays mp3 files.

By the way, the Grandvision Cooldv 550 does work with a 1 gigabyte SD card and I can record over 2 hours of video in 640x480 8 frames/second mode and over 4 hours of video at 320x240 8 frames/second mode.

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Feed the videos into avicodec, then record these things: size, time, dimensions, video codec fourcc, audio codec tag number, video frame rate, video bit rate, audio bitrate, number of audio channels, audio sample rate.
Any avi you produce for playback on your player should at least conform to the above specs.

maximus7

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I used avicodec as you mentioned. I created an avi file with the mjpeg codec as it had reported and used the speeds of the video and audio and the audiocodec as well. I named the video file CLIP0001.AVI which fits in the file name format the video camera wants.

Result. The video camera would not play the video.

I have created videos by placing the camera in front of a tv screen recorded then downloaded the files to the computer and saved them to my hard drive, then deleted them from the camera, renamed them and then renamed them again for the camera video file name format uploaded them to the camera and they played once again.


Otherwise I have not had success converting videos to th video format that AVICODEC reported from video files directly created from th camera.