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Converting or playing a .264 video file?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026127799 views
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I recently bought a Chinese brand DVR (to record security cams). The DVR exports the video files with a ".264" extension. This is my first time ever dealing with this video format. Anyhow I've been trying to convert the videos to any other format so it will be easier to watch the videos. The proble…

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Judging from their extension, these videos probably are "raw" h264 files - they contain just the video data, without any audio and outside of the container. Because they don't contain any headers, media players are unable to understand their content…

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