Mr Bean

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

neilg14

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

JonboyE

Some random thoughts:

Assimilation is very laudable, but that music?

Roundabouts!

Brrrrrr.

Mr Bean

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes that's how it works.

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

neilg14

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

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

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

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

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.