DVR video acquisition software for Windows. It pulls footage off a running DVR or NVR across the network and writes it out as MP4 or AVI. Used as DVR backup software, with no disk removal and no downtime.
A BitRecover product · Version 26.8 · Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Server
Some recorders cannot be switched off and some sit on a site nobody can reach today. Acquisition works over the wire instead.
Device coverage
Point it at an IP address and the trial reports which cameras answer.
Acquisition workflow
Version 26.8, walked through as a capture job would run it.
An address, a login and a window of time
Remote Device Acquisition reaches a powered recorder across the network and pulls its recordings straight into a folder. Give it an address, a login and a window of time, then leave it running.
Eighteen channels at once, unattended
Set how many cameras transfer together and the job runs in the background. A bar per channel shows what has landed, with elapsed and remaining time beside it.
Status against every captured clip
Everything captured lands in a list with its times, duration, location and codec. Preview any of it before the job is signed off, because a stream that dropped halfway is better found now.
Motion scanning across captured footage
Eighteen cameras over half an hour produces nine hours of footage. A motion pass reviews that and hands back only the segments containing movement, each carrying an activity score.
When no network path exists
Where a unit is dead, unreachable or its footage has already gone, that same suite reads disks directly. Source and Detect identifies the layout without needing make or model.
DVR video acquisition software reports which cameras answer before you pay. Download CCTV footage from the first 25 clips of any case for nothing.
Run the Free DemoFive steps from a live recorder to files on your desktop
Put your machine on that unit's network or open a route to it. Have the IP address, the RTSP port and a login with playback rights ready.
Auto-discovery lists the channels a unit exposes over Hikvision or ONVIF. Where discovery is blocked, type the range by hand.
Choose which cameras matter and give the job a from and to time. Full resolution takes the main feed. The lighter sub feed moves quicker when volume matters more than detail.
Set how many cameras move together and begin. Progress reports per channel while other screens stay usable.
Set the output type and where files should land. Every file carries its channel, camera name and original recording time. The unit itself receives nothing.
Your link sets transfer speed, not this software. Eighteen cameras across half an hour commonly runs a couple of hours on a modest connection.
A recorder is built to show video on a monitor, not to hand files to a computer. Its front panel and its web console both export slowly, one channel at a time, into a player nobody else has.
Front panel export
Slow and capped
One channel at a time onto a USB stick that has to stay plugged in, ending in a proprietary container.
Live streams
What RTSP exposes
Every channel a recorder serves, analogue or IP camera, is reachable as a stream. Software that speaks the protocol can request a time range and record it.
Retention clock
Always running
A unit keeps overwriting its oldest video while it runs. Capturing today protects material that will not survive the month.
Connect over the network and record the streams. The recorder keeps running throughout.
Pulling a disk means downtime, a site visit and a unit that stops recording the moment it opens. Network acquisition avoids all three. The software authenticates, asks for whichever channels and hours you name, then writes what comes back to a folder. Cameras keep recording while it works.
Two ways to reach the footage
Pulling the disk
Downtime, a site visit and a recorder that stops covering the premises.
Capturing over the network
No downtime and no site visit. The unit records throughout and nothing is written to it.
Full connection and output specification for DVR video acquisition, version 26.8.
What it connects to
What it writes
Everything here needs the recorder powered and reachable. Where it is not, read its disk instead.
The trial exports 25 clips per case. A licence removes the cap.
Personal costs $99 one time and covers a single capture job. Technician costs $299 one time and suits anyone running CCTV backup software across client sites as routine work. Both ship as DVRXtractor with 30 day money back.
Buy Personal $99 Technician $299
Everything described here reflects DVR video acquisition in DVRXtractor version 26.8. BitRecover has been building data recovery and format conversion tools since 2011. BitRecover has been building data recovery and format conversion tools since 2011.
Capture is one way only, from the unit to your machine. Try one window of footage on the trial before deciding on a licence.
Open a Disk FreeConnections, speed, trial limits and editions
Yes. CCTV backup software connects across the network and records what a unit serves, so nothing is unplugged and nothing stops recording. All you need is a route to the device and a login with playback rights. Where a port has been opened to the internet, change any factory default password first, because an exposed recorder on stock credentials is a known target.
A recorder's own export screen usually moves one channel at a time onto a USB stick. DVR backup software runs many channels together over the network and writes straight to a folder on your machine, which is what most people want when they set out to download CCTV footage in bulk.
An IP address or hostname, an RTSP port plus an account with playback permission. On the same local network that is all. Reaching a unit across the internet needs port forwarding on the router first. A VPN into the site does the same job. Either way it is the setup any remote viewing app already requires. Auto-discovery then lists the channels. Failing that, type a channel range by hand.
Yes. Cameras carry on recording throughout and the software only reads. The recorder receives nothing in return.
You choose. Raising that count speeds a job up wherever device and link allow. Eighteen channels together is common on a healthy network.
The link decides that rather than the software. Eighteen cameras across a half hour window commonly runs a couple of hours on a modest connection, which is why jobs run in the background.
Main gives full recorded resolution and takes longer. Sub is a smaller parallel stream that moves much faster and suits a first pass when you only need to see what is there.
Any unit that serves standard RTSP, which most current recorders do. Auto-discovery has dedicated handling for a Hikvision DVR and for Dahua and other ONVIF devices. Device coverage above lists the wider family. Captures arrive as MP4 or AVI rather than the .dav or .h264 containers a front panel export produces.
No. A live unit only serves what it still holds. Material already overwritten or deleted needs its disk read directly, which is a different tool in the same suite.
Whatever transferred is kept and the clip list marks what came back short. Restart the job for the missing window rather than pulling everything again.
Either MP4 or AVI. Both open in ordinary players, meaning a file can be handed to an insurer or a solicitor with no viewer to install first.
Yes. Every file keeps its channel, camera name and original recording time, so material from several cameras can be put in order later.
It connects, lists the channels that answer and captures up to 25 clips per case. A licence lifts that ceiling. Most single jobs finish inside that ceiling.
A one off job wants Personal at $99. Anyone collecting footage from client sites week to week wants Technician at $299. Both are single payments backed by 30 days of refund cover.
No software decides that. Jurisdictions differ. An examiner gets a defensible chain of custody out of it. The connection is read only, so nothing is sent to a unit. Every file carries its channel plus its original recording time. Running a job again brings back identical material, which is what makes captured evidence repeatable.
Nothing reaches it over the network, so its hard drive or SD card has to be read instead. Use DVR Video Extractor where footage is intact. Use DVR Data Recovery where it has already gone.
Download the software, point it at a recorder and pull up to 25 clips per case for nothing. Personal $99, Technician $299, both one time with 30 day money back.
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