Burning .dav files - CCTV

slipd · 6 Mar 2018 at 23:06

Hi guys,

Got a Honeywell cctv system at work and I need to make a DVD out of some of the footage. Got the .dav files I need no problem and although they playback fine on the computer with Media Player Classic (K-lite) and I can convert them for burning with a free .avi convertor, the resulting DVD are always corrupted... is it the discs or the files themselves do you think? Went through 4 today, using different software.

Dav's I understand are encrypted at source but I can't imagine they'd still have any legacy as a different fleet type would they?

Any ideas?

Sp00n · 7 Mar 2018 at 10:58

Does the resulting .avi file play ok in k-lite? You're burning the .avi file direct to a dvd as a data file?

slipd · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:48

Sp00n said:
Does the resulting .avi file play ok in k-lite? You're burning the .avi file direct to a dvd as a data file?

Yep, that's the weird thing... both the dav and the aviation play fine before I burn them to disc

Orcvader · 7 Mar 2018 at 20:59

How exactly are you burning them to the disc? How are you trying to play them on the disc?

Blackjack Davy · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:50

slipd said:
Yep, that's the weird thing... both the dav and the aviation play fine before I burn them to disc

Home PC or work PC? Do you have the cctv software installed on your home PC and if not do they still play ok? Because if they do its an issue with whatever you're using to transcode to MPEG2

slipd · 8 Mar 2018 at 09:56

Thanks guys! The cctv allowed me to download the (.dav) footage to a flash drive, and on the standalone pc I'm trying to do this on, it plays back absolutely fine. I used a free .dav converter to convert the .dav to an .avi and the resulting .avi plays fine... when I try and burn the .avi to DVD, to be played as a DVD, using Freemake, all I'm outputting is coasters that play the first few seconds of the footage in a loop :rolleyes:

Although the burn process goes okay, and the process is completed, I'm starting to suspect the disc drive. I've also converted the .avi to .mp4 in Handbrake but burning that still results in a 2 second-loop coaster.