[MPlayer-users] video copied from security camera doesn't playback

[Andrew Wason]

Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu <at> realss.com> writes:
> This clip is copied from security camera monitoring machine. file(1)
> could not determine the file type. The file is possible to playback on
> Windows with 暴风影音, the name of the software is in Chinese but it
> looks to be based on mplayer (the name of the player directly
> translation would be "storm video and audio").


Looks like it is this player, Storm Video 2009:
http://dl.baofeng.com/storm3/Storm2009.exe

I installed it and was able to play your video. This player seems to use ffdshow
and some other commercial components (CoreAVC, Cyberlink codecs etc.)

One of the codecs is HikH264Dec.ax which contains the string 4HKH and also the
strings:
VDecoder : This is h264 stream !
VDecoder : This is mp4 stream !
Also HikFileSplitter.ax and HikFileSource.ax contain the string 4HKH.

This codec is Copyright(C)HangZhou Hikvision Digital Technology - they
apparently sell the Hikvision DS-4000 Windows SDK and are the "leading supplier
of digital video surveillance products"
http://www.hikvision.com/en/zhichi1.asp?tid=13&bgclassid=12&act=d&classid=13


Andrew