I can copy files from the sd card to my windows 10 computer. but when I use microsoft clipchamp or VLC the quality is not near to what appears on my android phone. Is there some particular codec i need? Or a better software program?.
CamOg firmware: 1.0.63 plugin version 3.8.5.1
I think it is just because youâre looking on a much bigger screen than your phone. The quality of the files on the SD card is the best quality you can get.
Are you saying the quality is bad after merging the files? If so that would be a setting in clipchamp or VLC related to the output. You may want to use MP4 joiner or similar to just merge the files as that shouldnât affect the quality.
The quality of the clip downloaded off the SD card is the quality youâll get. As long as you can view the video, should be no new CODEC needed.
I havenât used Clipchamp for this, and the last time I really tried using VLC for that purpose, I wasnât successful. I have had decent results with FFmpeg but had to change the audio encoding in order to get that work, and that shouldnât affect the video stream of the finished product. One of the Forum Mavens created a Web-based tool that you could try to see if that produces any better output. Like @dave27, I wonder if some switch youâre using is reducing the quality of the output, particularly with an online tool. When you have access to all the files locally, I prefer to use a tool running on the local machine for maximum control, so FFmpeg would probably be my first choice.
Welcome to the Forum, @Larr! 
FFMpeg is great for a ton of stuff, I just donât usually mention it due to the command line nature and having to figure out the switches and settings to use.
I believe Iâve seen people mention that MP4Joiner works well for merging Wyze video clips, though I havenât used it myself. Drag and drop and click âjoinâ.
I noticed âclipchampâ get installed automatically like a year ago. Have not used it for anything, no idea if it is any good or not. The previous Windows Movie Maker was actually kind of decent the one or two times I used it to edit videos from my car dash cams.
But joining files without having to re-encode them should yield the best quality, which FFMpeg and MP4Joiner should both be able to do.
Yeah, and the FFplay component is one of the options Wyze is recommending for trying RTSPS.
Iâve also used Windows Movie Maker and found it to be decent. I havenât tried MP4Joiner but have seen that recommended previously.
I used MP4 joiner for this
Thanks for all the info. I also need the audio, which also was a challenge until I started with Clipchamp. But Microsoft just changed Clipchamp and it no longer downloads to my computer but wants me to store on the cloud. That will lead to subscription fees, imagine that.
To be clear, Iâm not saying that using FFmpeg to concatenate the files eliminates the audio. Iâm saying that in order to get a working output file I had to transcode the audio using an appropriate switch on the command line. The first link in my previous post will direct you to more detailed information if youâre interested in trying that.
I think they just moved things around to confuse us into saving to the $cloud$. I have what I think is the latest version, 4.4.10420.0 dated 10/17/2025. When youâre ready to save, tap Export in the upper right, select video quality, wait for conversion if any, tap the big purple Save to your computer on the left.
How are you merging the clips? If your utility is re-rendering the video, the quality can get worse. Since the video files youâre merging all have the same resolution, thereâs no need to re-render; use a simple video merge. I use MP4Joiner, part of the MP4Tools package.
Absolutely would like your help to get the audio with the merge concatenating process. I tested MP4Joiner and it does a good job of merging but no audio.
MP4Joiner supports audio, starting with version 3.1, its now at 3.8.
I âm using version 3.8 but no audio was available when I viewed the merged file using 5kplayer but decided to try movie maker- no audio, Tried VLC and got audio to play with movie, happy!
Maybe the original clips didnât have the same audio encoding; itâs a requirement, otherwise youâll need to re-encode the merged video. I think vlc did re-encode.
update, I only used two 1minute files when the audio worked. I just merged 50minutes and lost the audio on VLC as well. frustrated
update, I went back to the small file played with VLC and found out the audio cut out after about 1 minute. seems to be a phase issue???
There are audio setting on the MP4 Joiner. I have no idea what the do because I donât care about audio. The raccoons only use sign language.
As I mentioned earlier, you can look at the older topic I linked above. In that older post (linking again here), I mentioned that I had to change the audio encoding, and that post linked to a relevant Stack Overflow thread where I learned about specifying the audio codec for the FFmpeg command. Thatâs what worked for me previously when concatenating video from a Cam OGâs microSD card. I havenât tried it recently, though, to see if anything has changed (either with the way Cam OG is encoding its streams for the MP4 container or with the way FFmpeg processes the files/streams for creating a new video file).
