Formats → Cleartone
Cleartone in-vehicle recorders, including police dashcam. We convert these exports to standard MP4 with a browser-based player and the GPS track on a moving map.
A .cve stores the picture in a proprietary codec that no standard player can open, with the GPS track, speed and heading held alongside it. Ordinary tools show nothing, so the footage can normally only be watched through the manufacturer's own proprietary software.
The usual result is that the footage exists, is perfectly good, and cannot be watched by the person who needs to watch it — because the only software that opens it is the manufacturer's own, it is Windows-only, and the machine it needs to run on is locked down.
Extensions get reused and renamed, so the reliable test is the first few bytes of the file. On any machine, without installing anything:
xxd -s 714 -l 16 "your-file.cve" # macOS / Linux
certutil -dump "your-file.cve" # WindowsA Cleartone export begins 54 43 56 45 46 69 6C 65 4F 62 6A 65 63 74 at offset 714 — the ASCII string "TCVEFileObject" — the .cve file header itself is too generic to identify, so the marker a little way in is what names it.
A Cleartone export is usually a disc or folder holding the .cve alongside a player; the .cve carries the picture, the GPS track and the recording's start time together.
Nothing plays it but the manufacturer's own proprietary software — so the footage exists but can only be watched wherever that software happens to be available.
The recording's start time is read from the export's own metadata, and the GPS fixes carry their own timing at one per second — so the map, speed and heading stay in step with the picture.
The recording is converted to standard MP4 and the GPS track recovered — drawn on a map that moves with playback, with speed and heading read out alongside. Every recorded frame is carried across, and the certificate fixes the original file and the delivered video by their fingerprints.
One standard MP4 per camera, a browser player with the GPS track on a map that moves with playback, and a certificate that fixes the original recording and the delivered video by their SHA-256 fingerprints and confirms every recorded frame was carried across. What every conversion includes → · What the certificate proves →
One credit converts up to 4.7 GB. Your first conversion is free. Pricing →
Not sure whether yours will convert? Send us one .cve export that has given you trouble. We will tell you whether it converts, usually the same day, and there is no charge for finding out.
Try it — first conversion free or email enquiries@veriframe.co.uk
Cleartone in-vehicle recorders, including police dashcam. A .cve stores the picture in a proprietary codec that no standard player can open, with the GPS track, speed and heading held alongside it. Ordinary tools show nothing, so the footage can normally only be watched through the manufacturer's own proprietary software.
Because it is a proprietary Cleartone format. General-purpose players such as VLC, Windows Media Player and QuickTime are not built to read it and usually show nothing or refuse the file. In practice: Nothing plays it but the manufacturer's own proprietary software — so the footage exists but can only be watched wherever that software happens to be available.
As it stands, .cve opens only through Cleartone's own proprietary software. To watch the footage anywhere else it has to be converted: the picture is stored in a proprietary codec, so it is decoded and delivered as standard MP4, with every recorded frame shown to have been carried across.
Send us the .cve export — the whole disc or folder as the recorder wrote it. We convert it to standard MP4, one file per camera, recover the GPS track onto a moving map, and issue a certificate fixing the original file and the delivered video by their SHA-256 fingerprints. The first conversion is free.