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Blue Iris has become the standard tool for controlling and recording from higher-end video surveillance cameras. But the software uses a proprietary format (.bvr extension) that apparently VLC doesn't recognize. Has anybody attempted to get this format working with VLC?

no clue about this format.
Provide sample

Here's an example of it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/prlnbc86fbnqd ... 0.bvr?dl=0

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vlc --demux h264 can help

ahh, very nice - thanks! Plays back a bit choppily but is good enough for my purposes.

Don't suppose if anybody knows if there's a way in vlc to force a specific demuxer based on a specific file extension? Like I said, all of these are marked as .bvr. Not a big deal to open a shell but sometimes doubleclicking is nice too

bvr seems to weird for now.

bvr seems to weird for now.

Yeah, it's clearly some home-baked proprietary format that's designed to randomly access the security camera footage clips it encapsulates.

Although my real question isn't .bvr specific - Was just wondering if there's a generic way to force VLC to use a specific demux based on any arbitrary extension.

The easiest way I have found to view BVR is to create a text file called "ViewBVRMovie.Reg" (name not important but .reg is) and edit it in a text editor

Then enter the following 7 lines (including Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bvr]
@="bvrfile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bvrfile\shell\View Movie\command]
@="c:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe --demux h264 %1"

Now save the file and then double click on it and you will get a prompt about importing it into the registry as seen below

[Window Title]
Registry Editor

[Content]
Adding information can unintentionally change or delete values and cause components to stop working correctly. If you do not trust the source of this information in E:\DropBox\Dropbox\BVR\ViewBVRMovie.reg, do not add it to the registry.

Are you sure you want to continue?

[Yes] [No]

Select YES and the two entries will be added to the Registry.

When you right click on a BVR file now in Windows Explorer you will get an option called "View Movie" and it will open and play correctly in VLC at the right speed as well.

Hope it helps

Chris

Nice! Any thoughts about doing the same thing for Mac? Although my .bvr files (obviously) start on a PC I'm actually hoping to use Dropbox to sync and view on my Macbook.

Nice! Any thoughts about doing the same thing for Mac? Although my .bvr files (obviously) start on a PC I'm actually hoping to use Dropbox to sync and view on my Macbook.

Sorry I do not know anything about MACs. I assume they must have sort of file association similar to Windows.

Looks like the following may help

https://developer.apple.com/library/arc ... Files.html

There appears to be a file called Info.plist maybe in the folder for VLC? And you can associate programs with extension in that but I do not know how.

Good luck

Chris

In Blue Iris open side penal with all your BVR video files, right click on file you want to convert to AVI, MP4, or WM8 format, select line 'convert/export' in popup window select file format, and destination folder and click save... DONE! Now you can play video in any media player like VLC, Window Media Player etc..

The easiest way I have found to view BVR is to create a text file called "ViewBVRMovie.Reg" (name not important but .reg is) and edit it in a text editor
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I've just added this to the registry (had to modify the app location to "Program Files" as I have the 64-bit version of VLC) and it works fine, EXCEPT the video plays very quickly (a 3 minute video takes about 10 seconds to complete). Any ideas why, or a trick to slow it down at the outset? I modified the command line to add "--rate 0.1" which slows it down somewhat, but it's still about 5x too fast, and using lower rate values don't seem to have any effect.