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Need Stand Alone MP4 Player To Play Back Hikvision Camera SD Recordings

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Oct 13, 2016

I have put in a camera (HIKVision) at the entrance to housing development that is a stand alone camera with a mini sd card recording events.  The idea being that if there is an event you retrieve the sd card and check it out.  Problem I am having is the HIKVision software is not so great, its buried in there NVR software and does not play backward.  MP4's will play on windows media player but there are no features such as play in reverse or zoom.   Anybody have any recomendations on a player?

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UD
Undisclosed Distributor #2
Oct 13, 2016

Use VLC Media Player for all of your video playback, streaming, zooming, transcoding, anything related to video.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

You're welcome in advance!

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PK
Patrick Kelly
Oct 13, 2016

Full Disclosure: I work for Digital Watchdog

You can use DW Spectrum as a Media Player to play (MP4, MOV, AVI and MKV) simultaneously, all with zoom and playback controls.

You can download here:

http://digital-watchdog.com/DW_Spectrum/

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PK
Patrick Kelly
Oct 13, 2016

Forgot to mention the included Screen Record function

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JG
Jeff Gack
Oct 13, 2016
IPVMU Certified

You could try the latest VS Player. (video player)

You can download from LTS security.

http://www.ltsecurityinc.com/downloads

I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet, but it seems much better than the older versions.

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #3
Oct 13, 2016

I would also recommend VSPlayer for HikVision MP4 Playback. Here is the download page from HikVision's EU Tools Page.

http://www.hikvision.com/Europe/Tools_82.html

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Oct 13, 2016

LTS VSPlayer, not a bad player, wont play backward for some reason but overall very nice for what I need.

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Jeffrey Hinckley
Oct 14, 2016

Hikvision mp4 files will not play back on windows media player. This is a problem for municipalities. Other problem is that download usually creates multiple video files. You can use vsplayer to "merge" these files. If this is for customer whi only has media player, you can use "convert" to format in a way that can be played. I hope Hikvision can address and correct on future releases of ivms4200 soon. Downloading and delivering playable video to the DA is the primary reason we have these systems. An .exe format option would be at least a start with authentication/watermarking built in.

I have my page of instructions created from trial and error and customized so I can help a customer when needed. I wish I could explain a simpler method of "start" "stop" "export". Come to think of it, I am not sure I know of a customer that was able to successfully export video evidence from a Hikvision system on their own that could be delivered to police/da for playback. Very complicated with no reliable "how to" manuals.

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UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Oct 14, 2016

I am having luck with the VS Player and with Digital Watchdog, I need to get familiar with both as dragging the timeline in DW does not behave the way I think it should. I am used to Milestone where you actually see the video change when dragging the timeline, does not seam to be the case with DW, zoom is great though. Thanks for all your insight, your help is greatly appreciated!

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PK
Patrick Kelly
Oct 14, 2016

Let me know if you want a quick demonstration

patrick@digital-watchdog.com

Thanks

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Gyver Wong
Oct 14, 2016

EVE media player : multi video play in the same time, same monitor with layout
VLC : play almost any video and support rtsp

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