Dahua NVR has the same GUI interface as the Dahua hybrid DVR. You search, you find a segment of video you want to save, you clip it at Start and clip it again at End. In this NVR you click on the diskette button and it opens up your thumb drive where you "backup" the video clip you want to save. It saves to the thumb drive as a .DAV file. That's still okay but you should be able to convert it to .AVI or .MP4 format. For that I use a small Dahua converter, " Dhavi," which is supposed to convert it and save. The .DAV file should be a .AVI file but regardless of size the .AVI file is corrupt. Therein, lies my problem. I converted it with a new program called "ConvertTool" with the same results; the .AVI file is corrupt - it shows in file explorer as having a "size" but play time is zero. I've used VLC and the Windows default player, "Film & TV," with no luck.
Is there a way to convert .DAV to .AVI in SmartPSS? SmartPSS can play the .DAV files for sure.