# Nvidia smart record file name

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**Category:** DeepStream SDK\
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746 "2021-03-12T04:17:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![muvva](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@muvva](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/muvva)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/1 "2021-03-12T04:17:48Z")

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Hi,

I enabled to smart record feature in Deepstream SDK 5.0. It generated output file name as " \*\*smart\_record\_250\_00000\_20210312-024819\_17712.mkv".  
File name format look like: Prefix + camera-id+“time stamp”.mkv  
I want to convert “20210312-024819\_17712” to epoch time.

Can somebody help me what type of this time stamp? How to convert this time stamp to UTC or EPOCH time in python?

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**Author:** ![muvva](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@muvva](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/muvva)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/2 "2021-03-12T04:22:05Z")

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Is it possible to pass complete user string instead of prefix string to generate smart record file?

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**Author:** ![bcao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/bcao/32/14043_2.png) [@bcao](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/bcao)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/4 "2021-03-16T07:02:25Z")

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Hey, sorry for the late, are you using deepstream-test5 and enable smart record in the config file?  
And here is a detailed doc for smart record [Smart Video Record — DeepStream 6.1.1 Release documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/metropolis/deepstream/dev-guide/text/DS_Smart_video.html) , could you check it?

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**Author:** ![subzeromot](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@subzeromot](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/subzeromot)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/6 "2021-09-16T06:59:05Z")

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Hi, Did you find any solutions for this, pls?

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**Author:** ![muvva](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@muvva](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/muvva)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/7 "2021-09-16T23:24:18Z")

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No but I append my generated time stamp along with smart record generated string

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**Author:** ![TomNVIDIA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/tomnvidia/32/14181_2.png) [@TomNVIDIA](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/TomNVIDIA)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smart-record-file-name/170746/8 "2021-10-12T16:13:22Z")

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Closed on October 12, 2021, 4:13pm UTC