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Mr Bean Mar 8th 2015 1:49 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by neilg14 (Post 11586246)
Have you tried it at night yet ?

Yes I have. Works great on city streets but I haven't tried it with the LED light yet out in the sticks.

neilg14 Mar 8th 2015 4:06 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Mr Bean (Post 11586247)
Yes I have. Works great on city streets but I haven't tried it with the LED light yet out in the sticks.

Ok. thanks, let us know if you sort the loop problem out and what it was.

JonboyE Mar 8th 2015 6:30 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Hemi Dave (Post 11582327)
Here's the one I got. Quick delivery too

Full HD 1080P H 264 Dash CAR DVR Video Camera Recorder Crash CAM G Sensor IR LED | eBay

And here's my first trial. No talking on this one ;-)
Purely a quality test

Daves Drive 1 - YouTube

Some random thoughts:

Assimilation is very laudable, but that music? :)

Roundabouts!

Brrrrrr.

Mr Bean Mar 8th 2015 1:29 pm

Re: Dash Cams
 
Dear customer,
Hello, there,

Sorry there haven't a way to record it as one files,
This is built-in Intelligent Storage method which can't be adjusted.

Also there haven't this kind of camcorder in the marketing.
Hope you can understand.
Nice day!
Lydia


That's the reply I got. No big deal as I can stitch the .avi files together if I want to. Disappointing but not the end of the world.

neilg14 Mar 9th 2015 12:54 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Mr Bean (Post 11586570)
Dear customer,
Hello, there,

Sorry there haven't a way to record it as one files,
This is built-in Intelligent Storage method which can't be adjusted.

Also there haven't this kind of camcorder in the marketing.
Hope you can understand.
Nice day!
Lydia


That's the reply I got. No big deal as I can stitch the .avi files together if I want to. Disappointing but not the end of the world.

Mr Bean, I'm glad you can decipher that email, looks like it's written in code to me.
What is it saying exactly ? I'm not very tech savvy.
What does stitching the avi files together mean ?
Sorry if these are stupid questions.

Mr Bean Mar 9th 2015 1:47 am

Re: Dash Cams
 
No questions are stupid.

I kind of understand the email as I deal with a lot of Asians at work LOL. She is basically saying that the device will not record any content after the 10 min roll. Kind of seems pointless to me to have the ability to turn the feature off mind you. As far as joining the files together to make one movie, there are lots of program out there to do this. You just have to make sure the audio codecs match up on all files you want to join.

neilg14 Mar 9th 2015 2:21 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Mr Bean (Post 11586999)
No questions are stupid.

I kind of understand the email as I deal with a lot of Asians at work LOL. She is basically saying that the device will not record any content after the 10 min roll. Kind of seems pointless to me to have the ability to turn the feature off mind you. As far as joining the files together to make one movie, there are lots of program out there to do this. You just have to make sure the audio codecs match up on all files you want to join.

Thanks.
On their site on Ebay, if you scroll down to near the bottom, they have a graph there and it tells you how long a 1/2/4/8GB card will record for in the various pixel stages and how many still photo's you can take etc.
ie. 1GB 10mins recording, 2GB=20min, 4GB=40min & 8GB=80min, so if it will only record 10mins on a loop, I don't see the point of the graph.
Mis-representation ?
If I knew this, I wouldn't have bought this model.

MarkG Mar 9th 2015 9:23 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by neilg14 (Post 11587015)
Thanks.
if it will only record 10mins on a loop, I don't see the point of the graph.

Isn't the point that it records a 10 minute file and then records another, and deletes the oldest one when it runs out of space?

That's how most of them operate, and most people consider it a feature, as they don't want to have to edit videos, just copy off the file with the bits they're looking for.

neilg14 Mar 9th 2015 9:55 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by MarkG (Post 11587499)
Isn't the point that it records a 10 minute file and then records another, and deletes the oldest one when it runs out of space?

That's how most of them operate, and most people consider it a feature, as they don't want to have to edit videos, just copy off the file with the bits they're looking for.

So what you're saying is, if the loop function is OFF, it records for 10 mins, stops, records for 10 mins stops, etc until it runs out of space on the card then then re-writes over the beginning of the card again, and does that until you download it ?
And if the loop function is ON, it records for 10 minutes then loops back over that first 10 mins continually ?
If this is the case, I have no problem with that, I mis-understood what Mr Bean said.
The last dash cam I had, which was an expensive one would, when the loop feature was turned OFF, continuously record until my ignition was turned off and when reaching the end of the card would over write from the start again and each file was the length of that particular journey.

Mr Bean Mar 9th 2015 10:54 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by neilg14 (Post 11587537)
So what you're saying is, if the loop function is OFF, it records for 10 mins, stops, records for 10 mins stops, etc until it runs out of space on the card then then re-writes over the beginning of the card again, and does that until you download it ?
And if the loop function is ON, it records for 10 minutes then loops back over that first 10 mins continually ?

Yes that's how it works.


Originally Posted by neilg14 (Post 11587537)
The last dash cam I had, which was an expensive one would, when the loop feature was turned OFF, continuously record until my ignition was turned off and when reaching the end of the card would over write from the start again and each file was the length of that particular journey.

This is how I wanted it to work. I wanted to have the choice to do both.

neilg14 Mar 9th 2015 11:54 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Mr Bean (Post 11587582)
Yes that's how it works.



This is how I wanted it to work. I wanted to have the choice to do both.

I think because it is a cheap one, we can't do it, now I just have to work out how to join these files.

plasticcanuck Mar 11th 2015 4:24 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by Hemi Dave (Post 11581767)
I decided I just had to get a dash cam to show the world just how bad Canadian drivers are, lol.

Found a basic little cam on Ebay for about 70 bucks delivered. Seems to work fine.

But wouldn't you know it, as soon as I hit record, they all start behaving themselves! lol.

Roundabouts are may favourite. I'll have a youtube channel up and running soon.

Anyone else captured any gems?

You might've interested in a documentary presently on ITV Player called Car Crash Britain Caught on Camera. It's about the proliferation of Dash Cameras in the UK. Some interesting footage showing how bad are many UK drivers.

dbd33 Mar 11th 2015 5:19 am

Re: Dash Cams
 
Since this thread started I've trying to imagine a reason for having a dash cam.

"If I had a dash cam", I thought, when laying in bed last night, "I could watch the video and it would be just like driving to work again". That'd be good if I just couldn't wait to actually do it.

I decided that I could wait.

MarkG Mar 11th 2015 5:22 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 11589428)
Since this thread started I've trying to imagine a reason for having a dash cam.

I could figure out what actually happened the other week when the pickup in front swerved across into my lane, apparently avoiding another pickup going the wrong way down the ring road.

There's a reason I try not to drive alongside other vehicles, particularly pickup trucks...

dbd33 Mar 11th 2015 6:25 am

Re: Dash Cams
 

Originally Posted by MarkG (Post 11589433)
I could figure out what actually happened the other week when the pickup in front swerved across into my lane, apparently avoiding another pickup going the wrong way down the ring road.

There's a reason I try not to drive alongside other vehicles, particularly pickup trucks...

I don't get it:

If you didn't hit the pickup it doesn't matter.

If you did and you're dead it doesn't matter and the camera's smashed up anyway.

If you didn't hit the pickup and were frightened by the experience it'll replay in your head without having to watch it.


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