Saturday, October 17, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] .dss unix video file format?

 

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.net

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.
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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