Surveillance system for transcoding surveillance image files while retaining image acquisition time metadata and associated methods

A surveillance video system comprising:

• a processor configured to
• transcode a sequence of surveillance image files for a common area having image acquisition time metadata associated therewith, the sequence of surveillance image files defining an image acquisition rate, into a sequence of surveillance video frames retaining the image acquisition time metadata and at a video frame rate different from the image acquisition rate, and
• assemble a surveillance video transport stream from the sequence of surveillance video frames and retaining the image acquisition time metadata.

A video system comprising:

• a processor configured to
• transcode a sequence of image files for a common area having image acquisition time metadata associated therewith, the sequence of image files defining an image acquisition rate, into a sequence of video frames retaining the image acquisition time metadata and at a video frame rate different from the image acquisition rate, and
• assemble a video transport stream from the sequence of surveillance video frames and retaining the image acquisition time metadata.