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MFR August 2020
Visual Engineering
Video solutions. Integrated
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Recovering Recordings
Recordings are stored on the SD Card as individual 10 second duration .avi files. This is for a frame
rate of 30fps, lower frame rates will increase the length of the stored file proportionately. For
example a frame rate of 15fps will create a 20 second video clip.
Video clip lengths are intentionally kept short, this allows integration with the VE Camera Viewer so
that recent events can be played back with a low data upload overhead.
The file size is proportional to the total bit rate selected by the user.
The files follow the a naming convention of:
YYMMDDHHNNSS
For example a file with the name of: 170801134611 would have the meaning:
YY = Year is 2017
MM = Month is 08, August
DD = Date is 01, the 1st of the month
HH = Hour is 13, 24 hour format
NN = Minutes is 46
SS = Seconds is 11
Recordings are stored in directories for each individual hour, the directory has the form:
YYMMDDHH
Since each file is a minimum of 10 seconds long there will only ever be a maximum of 360 files in
each directory.
Recordings can be accessed and downloaded via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) using either the VE
Camera Viewer or an FTP application such as FileZilla.
The VE Camera Viewer is available to download from the VE website at:
www.visualengineering.co.uk/supportdownload/26
FileZilla is a free application and can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/FileZilla/
When using FileZilla, downloaded recordings can be viewed in players such as VLC either
individually by selecting Play stored File or in groups by creating a play list.
Record Format