CCTV Converter

Convert and view your Chinese CCTV camera files.

Free • No ads • No accounts • Works offline • 16 languages

Most Chinese DVRs save footage in proprietary formats that no normal player will open. CCTV Converter detects the format and converts to standard MP4 in parallel for big batches, optionally burning a date/time clock into the video for evidence use. New in v2.1: automatically blur or black out faces for privacy, one-tap look presets, a continuous whole-day timeline, and more ways to share — all on your own machine, in your language.

New in Version 2.1

Version 2.1 adds privacy tools, a smarter editor and a whole-day timeline — still free, still entirely offline.

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Automatic Redaction & Area Tracking

Blur, pixelate or black out faces automatically — the editor finds each face and follows it as it moves. Need to hide something else? Draw a box over a number plate, a person or an object and Track this area follows it through the clip for you. It all runs on your PC — nothing is ever uploaded.

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One-Tap Looks & Live Gamma

Instant look presets — Night, Bright, Clarify, Vivid and Black & White — each shown as a thumbnail so you can preview the result. Fine-tune with brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness and a new gamma control, all with a live preview.

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Find Motion Inside a Clip

Detect motion right in the editor to mark every active stretch as a segment, then jump straight between events — skip the empty hours without leaving the clip you're working on.

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Compress, GIF & Evidence Reports

Shrink a clip to email it, save a moment as an animated GIF, or generate an evidence report — a printable PDF with source details and SHA-256 checksums for chain-of-custody.

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Continuous Day Timeline

Right-click a day of recordings and play the whole day as one seamless video. Scrub across the joins between files, jump between motion events, and export any span without opening each file.

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Deinterlace & Watermark

Smooth the combing on older analogue cameras, and burn a case number or watermark into an exported copy for evidence handling.

Files Your Player Won't Open?

If your camera came from a Chinese vendor, the SD card is probably full of .ps, .dav or .264 files that VLC and Windows Media Player refuse. CCTV Converter detects the format from each file's signature bytes and turns it into a clean MP4 your phone, browser or any video editor can open.

Xiongmai / HiSilicon
IMKH-prefixed .ps

Dahua
DHAV .dav

Hikvision
proprietary streams

Raw H.264 / H.265
.264, .265, .hevc

MPEG-TS / PS
.ts, .mpg, .vob

MP4 / MOV / AVI / MKV
standard containers

ASF / WMV / FLV
legacy formats

20+ extensions
auto-detected

How It Works

Pick the SD card or folder

Drag a folder onto the window or click Browse. CCTV Converter walks the date subfolders and finds every video file.

Filter and select

Hide short clips, narrow by date or time of day, search by name, or just tick whole days. Folders with no matches hide themselves.

Convert & review

Stream-copy to MP4 in seconds (no quality loss). Preview, scrub frame by frame, snapshot moments, and merge a day's clips into one continuous video.

See It in Action

From a card full of unplayable files to reviewed, edited, shareable footage — all on your own PC.

CCTV Converter main window: file browser, filters and live preview — Browse, filter & convert

Point it at your DVR's card, narrow down by date, time of day or filename, and batch-convert to MP4 — with instant preview, a thumbnail filmstrip and a motion heatmap along the seek bar.

CCTV Converter built-in editor with crop, rotate and image-adjustment controls — Edit, enhance & redact

Trim to the exact frame, crop and rotate, rescue dark footage with brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness and gamma, and hide faces, number plates or any moving area for privacy. Set the output size and quality, save presets, and export — your originals are never touched.

CCTV Converter multi-camera sync view showing six cameras at once — Compare six cameras in sync

Play up to six angles side by side on a single timeline, nudge each camera's offset to line up clocks that drifted, then snapshot every view at once or export a synchronized composite.

CCTV Converter settings: encoder, output naming and watch-folder automation — Set it up your way

Pick your encoder (including GPU acceleration on NVIDIA, Intel or AMD), choose how output files are named, and switch on a hands-off watch-folder that converts new recordings automatically as they land.

Features

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Smart Format Detection

Magic-byte detection identifies Xiongmai, Dahua, Hikvision, raw H.264/H.265 streams and 20+ file types in all, automatically — no guessing required.

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Lossless Conversion

Stream-copy where possible (no re-encoding) means a 30-second clip converts in well under a second with zero quality loss. Falls back to a clean H.264 re-encode if needed.

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Parallel Conversion

Convert up to 8 files at once on multi-core machines. A full day of recordings that used to take minutes now finishes in seconds. Adjustable from 1 to 8 concurrent jobs.

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Date / Time Burn-in

Optional clock overlay burned right into the converted MP4 — perfect for insurance claims, court evidence and incident reports where timestamped footage is required.

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16 Languages

Full UI in English, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Arabic (right-to-left). Auto-detects your Windows language; switch any time with one click.

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Powerful Filters

Hide clips below 10 / 20 / 30 / 45 seconds or 1 to 5 minutes. Filter by date, time of day or filename. Folders without matches collapse out of the way automatically.

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Built-in Preview

Play, pause, frame-by-frame stepping, variable speed (0.5×–8×), volume control, and a fullscreen mode with draggable controls so you can see what's underneath.

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Frame Snapshots

Capture any frame as JPEG or PNG — perfect for incident reports, social posts or sharing a moment without the whole clip.

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Merge to Single MP4

Stitch a day's clips, or any selection across multiple folders, into one continuous video in chronological order. Useful for handing footage to insurers or police.

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CSV Export

Export the full file list with filename, size, duration, resolution, format and timestamps — handy for cataloguing or evidence trails.

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Drag & Drop

Drag any folder onto the window to scan it instantly. Last source and output folders are remembered between sessions.

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Cancellable Operations

Stop a long scan or batch conversion at any moment. Partial files are cleaned up automatically so nothing's left in a bad state.

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Optional Cleanup

Tick "Delete source files after successful conversion" to reclaim SD-card or drive space as you go — with confirmation.

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