Play XMeye files in your browser
The footage XMeye's recorders save, which other players run too fast or not at all. Play it right here at its own speed, with its sound and the time it was recorded. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your video starts playing the moment it opens, sized to fit your screen.
- Plays at once, sized to fit
- Play and pause • Drag the timeline
- Step frame by frame • Change the speed
- Export • Save as MP4 or MOV
About XMeye
Xiongmai's boards run a great many of the cheap DVRs, NVRs and cameras sold under other brands, all set up with the XMeye app and its CMS. Backups to a USB stick and downloads from the app come as .h264 files, often named after the channel and the time.
Despite the name it isn't a bare H.264 stream: each frame sits after a header of Xiongmai's own, an I-frame's with the frame rate, the size and when it was recorded, a P-frame's with its length, and G.711 sound between them. Players that skip the headers guess 25 frames a second, so a 15 fps recording runs fast, and drop the sound.
Filepeek reads every frame's header, puts the picture and the sound back together for FFmpeg and plays them at the frame rate the recorder wrote. The recorder's clock shows under the player's time, Show details gives when the footage starts and ends, and Export saves an MP4 that keeps when it was recorded.
XMeye recorder video
.h264 • .264
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Xiongmai's recorders and the XMeye app
Inside the file
- Video
- H.264, H.265 or MPEG-4
- Audio
- G.711 A-law
- Keeps
- Frame rate and when it was recorded
- Made by
- Xiongmai's recorders
Opens in every browser
Filepeek plays XMeye's footage in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and H.265 where the browser and the device decode it. No browser plays it by itself.
- YouChromePlays through Filepeek
- YouEdgePlays through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxPlays through Filepeek
- YouSafariPlays through Filepeek
Apps that open XMeye
- WindowsXMeye's VMS and its player • VLC plays it too fast
- MacVMS for Mac • VLC plays it too fast
- iPhone and iPadXMeye plays the recorder's footage, not the file
- AndroidXMeye plays the recorder's footage, not the file
Questions
Why does my DVR footage play too fast?
Other players skip XMeye's headers and guess 25 frames a second. Filepeek reads the frame rate the recorder wrote, so 15 fps footage plays at 15.
Can I see when it was recorded?
Yes. The recorder's clock shows under the player's time, and Show details gives when the footage starts and ends. It's the recorder's own clock, which is off if nobody set it.
Can I make it an MP4?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as MP4, which plays anywhere and keeps when it was recorded.
Why is there no sound?
Many cameras have no microphone. Filepeek plays the G.711 sound XMeye's recorders keep, and shows the picture whatever the sound is.