Patent ID: 8351766

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting a plurality of data collection devices; selecting a plurality of video data streams captured or recorded by the selected data collection devices; preserving an original, digitally unaltered format of each of the selected video data streams; exporting the selected video data streams in each of the respective preserved original, digitally unaltered formats; packaging the exported video data streams in each of the respective preserved original, digitally unaltered formats; and playing the packaged video data streams in each of the respective preserved original, digitally unaltered formats substantially simultaneously, wherein packaging the exported video data streams includes extracting a data stream of each exported video data stream, the extracted data stream being in its original format; extracting metadata of each exported video data stream; and packaging the extracted data stream and extracted metadata into a data stream package for each exported video data stream in the plurality of video data streams, and wherein each piece of extracted metadata includes information relating to the data collection device that captured the video data stream associated with the metadata.