[FFmpeg-user] Problematic Hikvision video file for conversion ffmpeg

[George Andguladze]

Here is a screenshot of video settings for one of the cameras in the NVR. Other cameras use exactly the same settings except for the resolution.

http://oi63.tinypic.com/29djl7c.jpg

Other details:

Hikvision NVR has a downloadable SDK (C++) on their website that demonstrates the use of their internal API.  One of the API methods is used for downloading video in MPEG-PS format by supplying start time and end time of the desired video chunk. The resulting video file has no audio when played in VLC, MPC-HC  and the timestamps are messed up. Hikvision also provides a FormatConverter software used to convert their
Video format to other common ones, but it was also unable to resolve my issue. I should also add that one of the members from ffmpeg's  IRC channel on freenode told me that removing first 40 bytes of the video file seemed to fix the timestamp in MPC-HC,  but not in VLC. However, ffmpeg is unable to convert such file to any other formats anymore and gives error complaining about video header missing (doh). First 4 bytes of these 40 read "IMKH" in ACII that I assume stand for some proprietary Hikvision format. That's all the relevant intel I have.

I have also posted a question on Stackoverflow and replied with an answer describing the steps I took to resolve my specific issue.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47759599/hikvision-nvr-video-conversion-ffmpeg/47771735#47771735


George A.

-----Original Message-----
From: ffmpeg-user [mailto:ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Carl Eugen Hoyos
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 5:12 PM
To: FFmpeg user questions <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] Problematic Hikvision video file for conversion ffmpeg

2017-12-12 9:25 GMT+01:00 George Andguladze <gandguladze at hotmail.com>:

> Video file itself:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ccptsuiqk2ntsv/1.zip

Thank you for the sample, I opened a ticket for the audio timestamp issue:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6910

Does your camera provide different audio formats?
I believe some cameras support G.726, we still need such a sample though.

Carl Eugen
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