Media player format settings—individual files

Choose the media player format Individual files to export standard video or audio sequences as individual files that the recipient can view or listen to on computers with a standard media player installed. The computer must also have the codec you use for the export installed.

To get the smallest export size possible, select the MKV media player format. If not enabled, please contact your system administrator.

Name	Description
Content	Export video only, audio only, or both video and audio.
Format	Export video in AVIA popular file format for video. Files in this format carry the .avi file extension. format or in MKVShort for "Matroska Video". An MKV file is a video file saved in the Matroska multimedia container format. It supports several types of audio and video codecs. format.
Codec	Your choice of codecA technology for compressing and decompressing audio and video data, for example in an exported AVI file. affects the quality and size of the AVI file. You can change the codec, but Milestone recommends that you keep the default codec settings, unless you have a good reason to change them. The codec that you use must be similar to the one you have on the computer where you intend to play the exported video.
Include timestamps	Add the date and time from the VMS system to the exported video. The timestamp is displayed at the top of the exported video.
Reduce frame rate	Reduce the frame rate for the export. Every second image is included, but the export is still played back in real-time.
Video texts	Open the Video texts window where you can create pre- and post-texts for the AVI file. These texts are added to all cameras in the export file and displayed as still images before (Pre-slides) or after (Post-slides) the video.

MKV format: If you have not used privacy masking in video recorded in JPEG or MPEG-4/H.264/H.265 formats, no transcoding takes place on recorded video in the export. The recorded video is kept in the original quality. In contrast, if you have used privacy masks or have recorded video using any other codec, recorded video is transcoded into JPEG in the export.