Hi David,
The Olympus player is for Digital Speech Standard (DSS).
The files I have are a .dss Unix video format (from AverMedia
surveillance cameras). They are 100's of MBytes in size.
Thanks though,
James
On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:27 PM, studiodave wrote:
> Olympus has a Mac DSS file player and converter that converts to aiff.
> It is used for their digital recorders and I have it. If you have a
> small (emailable) file that you would like me to try for you you can
> send it to me off list of course.
>
> studiodave
> David Wilson
> 626 303-6275
> S. I. Studio
> www.sistudio.
>
> On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:15 PM, James Culbertson wrote:
>
> > Finally figured out that the .dss files come from an AverMedia
> > surveillance device. I was able to get dss2avi to transcode it. But
> > the only output codec for that app is Indeo 5.1. Fortunately this
> > still works on Windows XP. And the result plays in Windows Media
> > Player (which has not way of exporting to a useable codec for FCP).
> > But no other app I have found so far (like ConvertAVItoMP4) is
> able to
> > deal with the resulting AVI files. It might be a proprietary version
> > of Indeo that is the problem. I may never know.
> >
> > If anyone can think of an app on Windows that might work here let me
> > know. Premiere works on Windows, but I am not going to purchase
> > Premiere for Windows.
> >
> > For all of Quicktime's issues we could be in a lot worse shape.
> >
> > Thanks much, James
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> >
> > > It may require a forensic video software plug-in.
> > >
> > > There's one for the Avid called dTective, that allows it to
> capture
> > > those multi-plexed security camera videos and split the multi-
> plexed
> > > video into individual streams. It's by Ocean Systems. Maybe they
> > have
> > > a Mac/FCP version.
> > >
> > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:55 PM, James Culbertson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Google is letting me down here.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone heard of a unix video file format -- .dss -- coming
> from a
> > > > security camera system.
> > >
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