View .264 file with audio

[PirateWizard]

To the point. Trying to play .264 files from a police dash cam. NOT H.264, just .264. Must have audio, video not so important.

I was pulled over and charged with something the police officer is lying about. I've been trying to get the tapes from the police for over a month. After much calling, sitting and bugging them they finally gave me a copy of the dash cam. It's in a .264 format. It doesn't play in any media player. I have read several tutorials about different codecs, converting them to mp4, or changing the settings in VLC to view them. Some of these options have gotten them to play--sort of. The best I've accomplished is getting some scrambled video where I can vaguely make out my vehicle, but I can not get audio at all which is all I need. Both would be great, but if anyone can help just get the audio to play, it would be a huge help! Thanks in advance.

[bob5695]

.264 is raw video stream, without container.

open it with media info, and if the extension is true to the nature of the file, you should see there's no audio.

[PirateWizard]

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There were 2 separate nights I was pulled over. Yet 4 files. The media info I'm showing here is from the folder with all 4 files. Why are there 4 files? Is the audio in one, the video in another? If I'm reading the info correctly, there isn't any audio info? I know these next questions might be a bit "dumb", so please be patient. Can they be played somehow? If so, from what you see, is there any audio? I've read a lot of online info about .264 being CCRTV video. Makes sense since this was police dashcam footage. I've read that a lot of times to view these files you need a stand alone player (Nightowl, Lorex, etc) because the files are RAW for less tampering if you need them for evidence. Would that maybe be the issue--that they gave me the files but not the player to play them?

[joew771]

ok. so here's the deal. Bob was right, there is no audio, but you can convert it to a viewable video.

That, however is not the easiest thing ever.

Read this thread.

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/34132...64-methods

I may be able to help you if you get actually get anywhere, but I'm not going to bother going through the whole thing, especially since I don't have any .264 files. I suppose you could upload them if you want, and that would help, but since they show you commiting a crime, you may not want to.

[bob5695]

dropping the .264 into an mkv using toolnix would work for playback, assuming the files aren't corrupted. but you'd still have no audio.

[joew771]

dropping the .264 into an mkv using toolnix would work for playback, assuming the files aren't corrupted. but you'd still have no audio.

from what I've read, that may or may not work, but for sure there will be no audio. If the op would be willing to upload his original files that would help a lot.