QNAP Viostor VS-4016 Pro video to DVD

[jcorallo]

I work at a tennis club and we have a QNAP Viostor VS-4016 Pro video recorder connected to 8 Axis M1114 cameras. We are looking for a way to easily turn these video files into DVDs for people but we cannot seem to find a vfw decompressor that works with the H.264 avi files it creates. The have a fourcc code of q264 which I assume was some person at QNAPs idea, instead of using h264 they liked the q. We also would like to not show the timecode overlay if possible. I posted a video if you want to see a sample. I have tried a bunch of different software packages and codecs and cannot get anything that works for vfw. Using K-Lite Mega pack I am able to play the videos in MPC but it is using DirectShow I believe.

[jcorallo]

Oh yeah, we would really like to use Kinovea if possible or another player that lets play two videos side by side at the same time. We have two cameras on each court from different angles.

[manono]

That place is the best you could come up with? Do I really have to sign up to get a simple file? I, for one, refuse to try and get something from some site that makes me jump through hoops to get it (and makes me feel stupid in the bargain), wait, type in crap, or sneakily try and make me download something else (what the hell is iLivid?). Either send it to some decent filesharing site like Sendspace or MediaFire, or someone else can try and help you.

[sanlyn]

That place is the best you could come up with? Do I really have to sign up to get a simple file? I, for one, refuse to try and get something from some site that makes me jump through hoops to get it (and makes me feel stupid in the bargain), wait, type in crap, or sneakily try and make me download something else (what the hell is iLivid?). Either send it to some decent filesharing site like Sendspace or MediaFire, or someone else can try and help you.

This was a link to 4shared? Maybe the O.P. didn't sign up at 4shared for the correct type of account. If configured correctly and with correct link url, the user who clicks on the link should get ye olde Windows "Play Or Save As..." dialog.

[manono]

Did you try yourself? I click on the 'Download Now' link and a new screen pops prompting me to either sign up or log in.

[sanlyn]

Did you try yourself? I click on the 'Download Now' link and a new screen pops prompting me to either sign up or log in.

Yep, I tried it. Got the same thing. That's why I say, the 4shared account isn't set up correctly for public downloads, or the O.P. posted the wrong link. Here's a small zip file I posted there so long ago, i don't even recall what's inside (I think it's an old avs script). When you click on it, you should get a download prompt: http://dc440.4shared.com/download/I6uwMHBu/FilterBorders_YUV_rgb_AVS.zip

The url in the O.P.'s post is http://search.4shared.com/postDownload/M2VOpX_3/Test.html. That's not a download link.

[manono]

Oh yeah, you're right. Yours opens the 'Open With' or 'Save' choice immediately. So maybe jcorallo will return and fix it.

[jcorallo]

Sorry about that and thanks for trying here is the file on mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/file/fsb3ksk8j80keb5/Test.avi

[jcorallo]

I just noticed I can upload directly so here is the file as well. How the system works is we have 8 cameras creating files every 15 minutes. Qnap makes a program that can convert one file at a time but it is very slow and does a poor job. Plus it flips the video upside down which is a pain in the neck. With the amount of files we are working with having a decompressor that works would be great. I did talk to some in Tawain for Qnap and they basically said I was SOL and they were not going to help.

[aedipuss]

don't know if it will help, but the morons used custom code to change the video headers to "q264" from the correct "h264". if you use a hex editor and search and replace q264 with h264 in the videos it should be usable in all programs that also accept the weird cell phone type audio they also use.



or mediacoder accepts the original file as is and will trancode it. [edit] but the audio is screwed up from the 8htz 8bit setting they used.

[jcorallo]

The good news is right now we do not care about the audio so that is not a problem. Thanks that what I figured they had done with the fourcc code, I am sure they thought it would be cool to have it start with Q.

[jcorallo]

Any thoughts on a program that might let me watch the videos side by side without the timecode overlay?

[poisondeathray]

Any program that uses ffmpeg on the backend can read and encode these files to mpeg2 for dvd (there are literally hundreds based on ffmpeg)

One way to watch side by side videos without the overlay is use stack them with an avisynth and use a mediaplayer that can view .avs scripts like mpc-hc


e.g.

left=FFVideoSource("video1.avi")
right=FFVideoSource("video2.avi")
StackHorizontal(left, right)



In your test file, I don't even see an overlay , was there one included? It might be metadata not accessible by ffmpeg

[aedipuss]

no overlay on what i saw either