Please email support@camio.com if you would use this video importer:
go.camio.com/importer-prd
If 20 people confirm that it's useful at roughly 4 cents/hour imported, then we'll polish up this open source project for general release.
After discussing offline with Michael (originator of this thread), this importer seems to fill an important gap in available tools. So please feel free to comment in-place in the PRD so we can converge quickly on what's important/useful. I'm pasting the overview below.
Who's it for
System Integrators who collect video evidence for forensic investigations across NVRs of multiple clients.
Why it's needed
Continuous VMS/Analytics can be expensive. The per-stream licensing and hardware costs sometimes exceed the value for cameras intended only for post-incident review. Yet the time and effort to collect and share video evidence from multiple NVRs at remote locations is also expensive. So the importer makes it simple and inexpensive to share video evidence with pay-per-use billing that's a better value provisioning continuous analytics.
What it is
The importer is an Open Source project to automate the ingestion of video files so that they can be indexed for easy playback and labeling by any number of advanced classifiers running either locally or in the cloud. Camio provides the default Hooks for the importer to analyze, index and store the video in the cloud. Camio also provides usage-based billing at prices starting at $0.04 cents per hour of video imported.
Example: Joe opens his laptop with a folder containing 12 hours of video files from 20 cameras, starts the importer, and let's it run in the background for 10 minutes. He can see its progress as % complete, and if he interrupts the import at any time, it resumes from where it left off. On the local network, the importer rips through 12hrs*20=240 hours of video by asking the segmenter to label the video segments that might possibly warrant human attention (i.e. times when humans, cars or other significant objects were moving). Joe sees the message "100% complete" on his laptop when the analysis has finished, but he also receives an email notification upon completion with an invoice for $0.04*240=$9.60 and a link to the imported video for review and sharing in any HTML5 browser like:
https://camio.com/app/#search;q=5pm+PDT+to+6%3A30pm+PDT+July+2nd+v%3Ag1u0365k9yps