Convert raw surveillance videos (264) online for free
The converter easily converts your 264 videos to various formats - free and online. No VLC Media Player or or other Video software needed.
To convert other file formats to the "Raw Video Bitstream" file type, you need software like VLC Media Player or a similar tool.
A .264 file is a raw video bitstream encoded with the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. It is almost exclusively generated by security cameras, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), and Network Video Recorders (NVRs). Major security system manufacturers like Hikvision and Dahua extract video feeds directly to this format to save processing power on the camera hardware.
While you can attempt to open a .264 file with VLC Media Player, the format presents major challenges. A raw .264 file is not a complete video file. It lacks a media container (like MP4 or MKV). Because there is no container, the file contains zero metadata. This means there is no indexing, no audio synchronization track, and no defined frame rate. When you try to play it, the media player often guesses the playback speed, resulting in security footage playing far too fast or too slow. Web browsers, native operating system players, and professional video editing software will flatly reject the file.
To make this footage usable, it must be converted or "remuxed" into a proper container. For universal playback, web viewing, and editing in software like Adobe Premiere Pro, convert the .264 file to MP4. For archival purposes where multiple raw streams need to be preserved without losing original data, convert to MKV. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser - free, online, and without installing software.
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If you want to convert 264 file to , you can use VLC Media Player or similar software from the "Raw Surveillance Video Stream" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to 264, try VLC Media Player or another comparable tool in the "Raw Surveillance Video Stream" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our 264 converter.