Please help playing back h260 file on mac ?

[rowl3y]

Hi there, I have just joined here to hopefully get help.. I just got a cheap ip camera from eBay, I have it all working no setup to any software just the ones thats on the camera & have it uploading to my web server over FTP..

How its uploads a .h260 file .. I have tried everything to get this working .. Tried renaming the files but nothing will play it on a mac

Please help

Here are the videos

http://rowleysdiscos.co.uk/cctv/cgi_video/

 

[bp2008]

Did you try VLC media player? If that won't play the file, nothing will. Try renaming the extension to .h264 first maybe.

 

[rowl3y]

Just tried that and dont work ARRGGGHHH what the point off it then if you can play it back on anything .. I even tried on my windows laptop on VLC and did nothing

 

[bp2008]

You'll probably have to find some surveillance software to run on your mac then, and hopefully you will be able to pull a video stream from the camera and not use the camera's built-in recording functions.

 

[fenderman]

Just tried that and dont work ARRGGGHHH what the point off it then if you can play it back on anything .. I even tried on my windows laptop on VLC and did nothing

Its likely a proprietary format the cannot be played unless you use their player..

 

[alastairstevenson]

From a quick google search:

The h260 file extension is associated with the Intel ITU H.260 codec used by some devices , like IP cameras that record videos with the h260 file extension and save them on SD card. It is reported that Intel ITU H.260 was also used to encode video by some videoconferencing tools and osprey products for Mac.
The Intel ITU H.260 is obsolete product.

 

[Morten]

Just tried that and dont work ARRGGGHHH what the point off it then if you can play it back on anything .. I even tried on my windows laptop on VLC and did nothing

I had the same problem but found out that my good old goto player: mplayer worked!

Mplayer tries really hard to play EVERYTHING you through at it.

If you wan't a file that can be played by most players (with out converting it), you can use mencoder like:
mencoder -ovc copy <your-file.h260> -o <your-file.avi>

 

[Kawboy12R]

Youtube is also a decent resource for playing obscure file formats. Upload the video as private so only you can view it if it contains or might contain sensitive content.

 

[Morten]

Youtube is also a decent resource for playing obscure file formats. Upload the video as private so only you can view it if it contains or might contain sensitive content.

Excellent suggestion!
... Just tried, doesn't work for this videos, not even if I rename them to .mjpeg
Did test mencoder with some of the topic starters videos:
- boy you really should put some clothes on before you record

 

[tangent]

H.261 is an ITU-T video compression standard, first ratified in November 1988.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] It is the FIRST member of the H.26x family of video coding standards

H.260 isn't a real codec. Either the file extension is wrong or there's something non-conforming about what it outputs

EDIT: um... thanks for that I REALLY didn't need to see that video of @rowl3y surfing porn with his shirt off... run and hide.
Note to self ignore year old threads that get bumped and never look at a video anybody posts that isn't safe for youtube.

media player classic plays these files an claims they're: Video: MJPG 640x480 25fps [V: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 640x480]