Sorry if I understood something wrong but Windows Media Player can play bvr files. You need K-Lite Codec Pack - basic is enough.
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
Is there a standalone BVR viewer?
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http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
beepsilver
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I don't need this ability, but wanted to try it anyway....Windows Media Player worked for my .bvr files; I do have the K-Lite Codecs installed. I also tried just changing the extension from .bvr to .avi and that also worked and gave the added benefit of seeing a thumbnail view of the video.
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No. I promise you'll be ok. If you can't survive without it email support and ask for it.Was going to ask about a standalone bvr player (Blue Iris default recording format), and found this thread.
It is 8/2019. Is there a standalone bvr player?
I backup my older .bvr files to the Cloud and may not have access to my BI PC.
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SecuritySeeker
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According to this you can in fact use VLC to play bvr files:
The key bit is the command line option --demux h264:https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=144133 said:
vlc --demux h264
jaydeel
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Nice!
Just needed one minor tweak to get this to work for me... I had to edit the following key slightly... note "%1" in quotes. (my bvr files are in a folder containing a space, i.e., 'D:\Blue Iris\New'.)
This changes the last line in the reg file to
@="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe --demux h264 \"%1\""
And as a personal preference, I changed the key 'View Movie" to "View in VLC"
Just needed one minor tweak to get this to work for me... I had to edit the following key slightly... note "%1" in quotes. (my bvr files are in a folder containing a space, i.e., 'D:\Blue Iris\New'.)
This changes the last line in the reg file to
@="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe --demux h264 \"%1\""
And as a personal preference, I changed the key 'View Movie" to "View in VLC"
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teredactle
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For the record, HBBB (Handbrake Batch Beast) will convert the BVR files with handbrakecli (I don't use FFMPEG) as I use this program to batch convert my video all to HEVC.
I didn't find any info so I just tried a small clip now, and it worked.
Next is to get the 1 large file ouput from BI (I record 8am-8pm and combine all motion detection clips into 1 file) with HBBB and see how it work for me.
Basically matching quality with the original stream pushed to HEVC, gives me around 5:1 compression which is great (in my case).
Also, this allows me to scroll/view through the recorded clips as using DTD H264 I can't play anything back through the BI GUI.
I didn't find any info so I just tried a small clip now, and it worked.
Next is to get the 1 large file ouput from BI (I record 8am-8pm and combine all motion detection clips into 1 file) with HBBB and see how it work for me.
Basically matching quality with the original stream pushed to HEVC, gives me around 5:1 compression which is great (in my case).
Also, this allows me to scroll/view through the recorded clips as using DTD H264 I can't play anything back through the BI GUI.
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Why cant you play anything back? That is not normal.
teredactle
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Sorry, I wasn't clear, maybe didn't provide enough info.
All my cameras are set to record MPEG-4, direct to disk (not in BVR mode).
I also have all my cameras to combine all the clips, so I basically have 2 or max 4 clips (for the entire 24H period), from each camera.
I cannot ever play back clips in the web GUI, unless I am recording in BVR mode.
I guess there are some limitations of saving to MPEG-4 direct to disk, as I understand this is one of them (and playing clips back on the spot isn't that important to me).
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You can certainly play back mp4 files in blue iris and the webserver. You may need a codec installed
Download K-Lite Codec Pack
The limitation of mp4 is that you cannot playback a file while the file is open. So if you have your clips set to 6-12 hours has you indicate, then you will not have access to the clip for ours unless you manually interrupt the recording.
Also note that if you set your clips to really long length you may have issues if the files are large or if there is an interruption/power/crash etc in hour 5 you may corrupt the entire clip.
BVR is supposed to be more efficient as well, though I never tested.
Finally, a recent update allows expired demo versions of blue iris to play back BVR files.
teredactle
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Whenever I try to play a clip that is saved as MP4 D2D (the file isn't open any longer) I get a yellow message: "the video stream was lost, attempting to reconnect"
If I mouse over the actual clip in the list, it shows the popup running the time, but there is nothing moving in the clip; if I click on the clip I get the error message above.
If I save to BVR, things works as expected. Not sure this is a code issue, I can play back all clips if they are local (by that I mean the MP4 clips that are saved)....
I am away of the issues with saving as MP4 (but thanks for bringin them up), as I find now the BVR is a wrapper of sorts on the MP4, I can throw the BVR file to handbrake and it can process it, happy about that!
If I mouse over the actual clip in the list, it shows the popup running the time, but there is nothing moving in the clip; if I click on the clip I get the error message above.
If I save to BVR, things works as expected. Not sure this is a code issue, I can play back all clips if they are local (by that I mean the MP4 clips that are saved)....
I am away of the issues with saving as MP4 (but thanks for bringin them up), as I find now the BVR is a wrapper of sorts on the MP4, I can throw the BVR file to handbrake and it can process it, happy about that!
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lots of extra work for nothing. Why would you want to process every clip you want to play back.
teredactle
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I'm not sure what you mean? My cameras are set up to record on motion, and combinethe clips of 4 hours (this never reaches even close to 1GB, except for 1 camera), and set up as direct to deisk in MP4 format. I'm not sure what your question applies to here - does setting it up this way make the GUI "process" each clip?
What I'm saying is that even if the clip isn't open (for writing) by BI, I still cannot play it back via the GUI, if it's set up like this (MP4/direct to disk), and I get the error I mentioned.
If it's set up as BVR direct to disk, no issue. I'm missing something here
<looks like I spoke to soon, HBBB will not work to convert the BVR files; it worked on a small file, but on large files >1GB it's cancelling out..
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There is something wrong with your setup. Playback of mp4 files works fine after the file is closed. Have you installed the codec?I'm not sure what you mean? My cameras are set up to record on motion, and combinethe clips of 4 hours (this never reaches even close to 1GB, except for 1 camera), and set up as direct to deisk in MP4 format. I'm not sure what your question applies to here - does setting it up this way make the GUI "process" each clip?
What I'm saying is that even if the clip isn't open (for writing) by BI, I still cannot play it back via the GUI, if it's set up like this (MP4/direct to disk), and I get the error I mentioned.
If it's set up as BVR direct to disk, no issue. I'm missing something here
<looks like I spoke to soon, HBBB will not work to convert the BVR files; it worked on a small file, but on large files >1GB it's cancelling out..
teredactle
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I instead the klite basic, no difference (as I expected). This has been an issue since I've set up BI, so it's not clear to me what is causing the issue... It's never worked playing back closed (for writing) files from GUI clip list, wgen set up to write to MP4 direct to disc...
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does that mp4 file play in the windows built in player?
teredactle
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Yes, all MP4s play just fine with WMP, with the Photos app, etc. This is why I didn't expect Klite to do anything; the MP4 files play just fine with the Windows player(s) if I play them right form the location they are stored to (which is a NAS share).