Directory Structure

Solution

/smartvue/video/MAC/YYYY-MM-DD/EPOCHTIME.mp4

MAC (The MAC address of a connected camera)
YYYY (Year such as 2023)
MM (Month such as 03 for March)
DD (Date such as 30 for the 30th)
Note: The folders Year, Month Date are UTC/GMT not the local time zone of the Cloudvue Gateway.

Within each directory, video is stored in files. Each video device has its own directory and files.

Example

/smartvue/video/0050F9627E62/2023-03-30/1680140457.mp4

At first glance it would appear the video for the camera with MAC address 0050F9627E62 was recorded on March 30th, 2023. However, there is only one Unix time, and it is created using the UTC/GMT time zone. A check of the epoch time 1680140457 shows the local recording time was Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 9:40:57 PM.

Use a converter like https://www.epochconverter.com/ to convert the epoch time to show the human readable GMT and local time.

1680140457
GMT: Thursday, March 30, 2023, 1:40:57 AM
Your time zone: Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 9:40:57 PM GMT-04:00 DST

2040–00160380.ps

min/sec manufacturer device id storage rule

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exacqVision files are stored on each drive enabled for recording in a directory structure as follows:

Year (such as 2018)
Month (such as 01 for January)
Date (such as 30 for the 30th)
Hour (such as 23 for 23:00 or 11 p.m.)

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Within each directory, video is stored in files with duration of five minutes. Each device (IP camera, compression board, encoder) has its own files. The file naming convention is as follows: MMSS-XXXXYYZZ.ps and MMSS-XXXXYYZZ.psi. The *.ps file contains the actual compressed video data, and the *.psi file is an index for frame locations within the associated *.ps file. Here is the meaning of each part of the filename:

MMSS is the minutes and seconds which the file begins.

XXXX is the four-hex-digit plug-in ID associated with the recording device. The first X is normally 0, with additional multistreaming contexts incremented up to 7. The remaining three Xs are based on the camera manufacturer, such as 0004 for an eDVR board or 0018 for Arecont.
See also: ExacqVision IP Plugin IDs

EXAMPLE:A single-stream Arecont camera would have a plug-in ID of 0018, but a multistream Arecont camera would have plug-in IDs of 0018, 1018, 2018, and so on as high as 7018. Even if a context is deleted, the file will remain on the system as needed.

YY is the device number within the plugin family.

ZZ is the storage rule associated with the video file. The value is 80 if there is no storage rule associated with this video recording.

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