ARLO Pro 4 XL SPotlight Camera - zooming into video

[fyik]

Hello, I am a new user

My question is how to zoom more into the video captured? Any outside app might help thaT?

[StephenB]

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@fyik wrote:

And my default player is Movies & TV to play the mp4 downloaded, which can't do pinch zoom.

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There are other players you could use.

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@fyik wrote:

Let me ask this, have you encounter the following msg :

This video is not able to play in your browser.
Please download to view.

I have no choice but to download. 

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Yes, I've seen this.  In your case, the HEVC windows extension won't help you, because your PC is too old - it doesn't have HEVC hardware support.

You could set the video to 1080p (by setting track and zoom). If you were to do that, it would play in your browser.  But you would only be getting 1080p recordings, not 2K.

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@fyik wrote:

With no zoom capacity to an extensive degree.  the scurity camera is no help to read a licence plate or for facial recognition.

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You are talking about playing a recording.  Zoom can't increase the actual resolution in the recording - it just shows a portion of the recording in a larger window. As you zoom in, the picture quickly becomes blurrier.

You can try VLC, and see whether it's zoom feature gives you any more useful detail.  https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

There is some info on how to interactively zoom the VLC player here:  https://vlchelp.com/how-to-zoom-into-videos-in-vlc-media-player/

[jguerdat]

Using the app? When viewing the video from the library, use pinch zoom to zoom in.

[fyik]

First of all, when I want to play the video, it says it can't play in the browser (and on any browser that i tried, Firefox, Chrome, or Edge) and intructed me to download.  And the dowloaded video just can't pinch zoom!  And the zoom-to-fill feature provided only enlarged very little, not significant at all, to read a licence plate e.g.

Help?

[jguerdat]

That will always be a function of whatever program you're using on the computer to see which one(s) allow zooming of a video. I'm sure I've tried to do that at some point in the past but haven't done so in a long time. It may be that it will take a more advanced viewer to allow this or even a video editor. Maybe someone with direct experience will jump in with a suggestion.

[StephenB]

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@fyik wrote:

First of all, when I want to play the video, it says it can't play in the browser (and on any browser that i tried, Firefox, Chrome, or Edge) and intructed me to download. 

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If you have a reasonably new PC (6th gen processor or later), than you can see 2K/4K videos in Edge if you purchase the Microsoft HEVC windows extension from the Microsoft store  ($0.99 USD).

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@fyik wrote:

And the downloaded video just can't pinch zoom!  

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What video player are you using?

[fyik]

My sysem Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz

the app is Movies & TV

[StephenB]

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@fyik wrote:

My system Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz

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That is a 5th generation CPU, so the HEVC extension won't help on that PC.

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@fyik wrote:

the app is Movies & TV

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That does have a couple of zoom controls ("zoom to fill" and full screen), but that's it.  VLC (free download) gives you a 2X option.  Not sure about other players, generally I just use VLC on my PCs.

[fyik]

Let me ask this, have you encounter the following msg :

This video is not able to play in your browser.
Please download to view.

OK

I have no choice but to download.  And my default player is Movies & TV to play the mp4 downloaded, which can't do pimp zoom.

Really appreciate your help/answers all this time.

With no zoom capacity to an extensive degree.  the scurity camera is no help to read a licence plate or for facial recognition.

[StephenB]

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@fyik wrote:

And my default player is Movies & TV to play the mp4 downloaded, which can't do pinch zoom.

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There are other players you could use.

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@fyik wrote:

Let me ask this, have you encounter the following msg :

This video is not able to play in your browser.
Please download to view.

I have no choice but to download. 

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Yes, I've seen this.  In your case, the HEVC windows extension won't help you, because your PC is too old - it doesn't have HEVC hardware support.

You could set the video to 1080p (by setting track and zoom). If you were to do that, it would play in your browser.  But you would only be getting 1080p recordings, not 2K.

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@fyik wrote:

With no zoom capacity to an extensive degree.  the scurity camera is no help to read a licence plate or for facial recognition.

---

You are talking about playing a recording.  Zoom can't increase the actual resolution in the recording - it just shows a portion of the recording in a larger window. As you zoom in, the picture quickly becomes blurrier.

You can try VLC, and see whether it's zoom feature gives you any more useful detail.  https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

There is some info on how to interactively zoom the VLC player here:  https://vlchelp.com/how-to-zoom-into-videos-in-vlc-media-player/