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My mother has purchased a home security camera system some time ago but have never been able to play the captured files. they are in .ifv files and the system is supplied with VLC software being the preferred choice. We, however, have never been able to get this to play the files, and I have searched exhaustively for codecs or help. We have tried to play on a mac and a pc. The seller of the system says he can play the files and cannot understand why we cant.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Please upload a short sample of a file to either http://streams.videolan.org/upload/ or to EmbedUpload.com, the latter will upload the file for you to several other hosts and then post the link to the file here.

If needed cut it with DGsplit and read here about how to do it:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57724&p=193335#p193335
50 MB max should be enough.

I know this is an old question, but as it's the top hit on Google I thought I should post the solution. You can play "ifv" by going into Preferences, select "All" from the "Show settings" box, navigate to Input / Codecs | Demuxers and select H264 video demuxer then Save.

...Preferences, select "All" from the "Show settings" box, navigate to Input / Codecs | Demuxers and select H264 video demuxer then Save.

Hello, I've got some files from security camera in with ifl extension recently. Tried to "hard-set" Demuxer to H264 (also FPS to 25, because it was set on recorder), but any luck with replaying.