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Javid posted:some states/shitholes the cops will hassle you about stuff hanging in your view, but I would not effort much harder than binder clipping it to the visors to run it down a pillar or something Pretty sure that was what got Tyre Nichols pulled over and then, unrelatedly, beaten to death.
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Nitrox posted:I have it on good authority but nobody ever goes back and looks at that continuous running footage unless something really good/bad happened. That's... true, though if you're making a roadtrip movie, it's great to have some time laps footage to cut to.
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 22:59 |
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mobby_6kl posted:That's... true, though if you're making a roadtrip movie, it's great to have some time laps footage to cut to. if you need quality footage then it’s not going to be better at capturing that than a dedicated action camera, but it will be much much better at being a dashcam than something like a gopro will
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 23:02 |
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Sorry, yeah, should have specified this is purely for fun/aesthetic reasons and not for serious/insurance purposes. I kind of envisioned doing a time-lapse video afterward, although I can't help but wonder if something interesting on the road might happen over the course of several days on the road. (I realize the answer may well be "probably not".) Javid posted:some states/shitholes the cops will hassle you about stuff hanging in your view, but I would not effort much harder than binder clipping it to the visors to run it down a pillar or something I like the binder clip idea! And it's going to be a solo trip so I can run it down the passenger side and not give a gently caress about the wire dangling across anyone's legs.
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# ? Nov 29, 2023 01:42 |
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you got this avatar too i see. there's a mad avatarer afoot
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# ? Nov 29, 2023 01:49 |
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Cactus Ghost posted:you got this avatar too i see. there's a mad avatarer afoot I'm starting to see a lot of people with the same Biden birthday cake av lately too
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# ? Nov 29, 2023 06:25 |
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:gopro is not a good dash cam no, but for a timelapse project like this it would probably work okay. I did it briefly before getting my current dashcam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnxgYyoaK7A Of course my actual cam looks much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP2-IsU3vAE
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 02:49 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:no, but for a timelapse project like this it would probably work okay. I did it briefly before getting my current dashcam:
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 14:50 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:no, but for a timelapse project like this it would probably work okay. I did it briefly before getting my current dashcam: that second one was a real cliff-hanger, i did NOT expect 27:52
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 20:22 |
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y'all are mean Here's one of my time-lapses to ignore, especially the part at 1:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhWPniOZEY&t=117s For real though Rev. Bleech_ I think the appeal on some of these would be watching the landscape morph or going through some weather or interesting topographic features. Nothing wrong with what you've put up, and its kind of cool to watch and skip around. For me, I'd planned to take about 60 minutes of video and compress into 4 minutes or less to suit today's attention spans.
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 23:18 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:no, but for a timelapse project like this it would probably work okay. I did it briefly before getting my current dashcam: I did in fact watch this one because I've driven this stretch many times, and stayed at a house at 3:47 this past summer.
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 23:29 |
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NoWake posted:y'all are mean No kidding. I'd have thought being in Ohio was punishment enough.
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# ? Dec 1, 2023 04:52 |
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Rinkles posted:Any one have any opinions on this deal? Sorry I'm struggling with figuring out what's important in a dash cam. I just finished installing this and tucking all the cables under the trim in my car not five minutes ago. I've had it hooked up and running flawlessly for the last week after the Viofo I ordered was a total piece of poo poo and got sent back. Once I was happy knowing that the 70MAI wasn't going to suck rear end straight out of the box as it sat with cables dangling everywhere since last weekend, I figured I wouldn't be returning it. So far I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed. It's cool to have a rear camera, and it sees through dark tint really well, but a dashcam is a dashcam is a dashcam so long as it works consistently and reliably. License plate readability is pretty terrible so far, even in decent lighting conditions, but I did install this custom firmware a few hours ago to see if it doesn't help at all. I won't be able to report on that for a day or two though, and I guess I'll have to read any plates out loud for the mic to pick up as per standard practice for the last 7 years with these things. Also, it's probably worth it to mention that if you or your sister have never installed something like this, you might want to budget to have someone do the work of running all of the wires through the fuse box and up through the trim for you, because I know what I'm doing and it was still a major pain in the rear end on a 16 year old Pontiac. It'll probably be an hour shop time at any reasonable garage, plus fuse taps or even the parking surveillance cable that I see is sold separately and won't let me engage that mode without it. I can imagine someone with little to no DIY skill receiving this kit as a present and being happy about receiving a dashcam, then either seeing what's involved in setting it up and just deciding to not even try it, or trying to get by with cables dangling all over the place only to in-relatively-short-order get frustrated with how messy it is and decide to get rid of it. But that probably goes for most dual dashcam systems and wouldn't necessarily be attributable to this one alone. XYZAB fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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XYZAB posted:I just finished installing this and tucking all the cables under the trim in my car not five minutes ago. I've had it hooked up and running flawlessly for the last week after the Viofo I ordered was a total piece of poo poo and got sent back. Once I was happy knowing that the 70MAI wasn't going to suck rear end straight out of the box as it sat with cables dangling everywhere since last weekend, I figured I wouldn't be returning it. So far I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed. It's cool to have a rear camera, and it sees through dark tint really well, but a dashcam is a dashcam is a dashcam so long as it works consistently and reliably. License plate readability is pretty terrible so far, even in decent lighting conditions, but I did install this custom firmware a few hours ago to see if it doesn't help at all. I won't be able to report on that for a day or two though, and I guess I'll have to read any plates out loud for the mic to pick up as per standard practice for the last 7 years with these things. Thanks for your impressions. How’s the ui? She’d like something that’s intuitive.
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# ? Dec 2, 2023 14:06 |
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XYZAB posted:I just finished installing this and tucking all the cables under the trim in my car not five minutes ago. I've had it hooked up and running flawlessly for the last week after the Viofo I ordered was a total piece of poo poo and got sent back. Once I was happy knowing that the 70MAI wasn't going to suck rear end straight out of the box as it sat with cables dangling everywhere since last weekend, I figured I wouldn't be returning it. So far I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed. It's cool to have a rear camera, and it sees through dark tint really well, but a dashcam is a dashcam is a dashcam so long as it works consistently and reliably. License plate readability is pretty terrible so far, even in decent lighting conditions, but I did install this custom firmware a few hours ago to see if it doesn't help at all. I won't be able to report on that for a day or two though, and I guess I'll have to read any plates out loud for the mic to pick up as per standard practice for the last 7 years with these things. However, the 229 has the front and back cam and I'm putting it in my SUV (Subaru Ascent), and was wondering how people handled putting the camera on the back glass. I was debating running a connection at the back window so I could replace the wire if necessary but didn't know if that was overkill. Otherwise I am going to just pull it through the roof trim, and give enough slack so it will be loose when the door is open, and hopefully not dangling. I didn't know if people thought that the opening/closing would break the wire/connector causing me to have to replace it or if I'm just overthinking it. Gothmog1065 fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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https://i.imgur.com/4D4lUVL.mp4 This happened earlier today. The woman driving the SUV is 6 months pregnant and was not feeling well after the hit. The driver who ran the red light actually tried to flee the scene, but was blocked in and forced to stay. Then started screaming at the pregnant lady, challenging her to a fight. What a piece of poo poo. The reason I have a camera running for over 8 years now is the same exact situation, where I hit a car flying through the red light, and they fled the scene almost immediately. Then police showed up nearly 2 hours later to write it up as a single car accident. Because Philadelphia Nitrox fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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I could tell it was Philly from the first frame. Red lights are optional here now, didn't you hear?
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 18:08 |
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opengl posted:I could tell it was Philly from the first frame. Red lights are optional here now, didn't you hear? Always have been Philadelphia is too busy of a city to worry about traffic infractions. So they focus on parking violations and now automated cameras in major hot spots. And it's sorta kinda helping, but more needs to be done, for sure.
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 19:07 |
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"Too busy of a city for traffic violations" lmao
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:04 |
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:"Too busy of a city for traffic violations" lmao "Let him go, Lou! Someone going that fast has no time for a ticket."
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 03:10 |
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boy it's been a banner week for the ol Roav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JudZ6qqqxb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRzqRD-gH0Q Didn't even see that second one, I was watching the oncoming lane
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 05:38 |
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Oof
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 18:08 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:boy it's been a banner week for the ol Roav https://i.imgur.com/m7VuybY.mp4 vvv Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Ban this sick filth
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 03:43 |
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Couple of road ragers as I was about to pick my kid up from school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Qolg1cPb0 I saw them in my mirror brake-checking each other, swerving, at one point they stopped, one got out, the other took off and gave chase again... anyway, they blow by me and other traffic in the middle lane, then (it's hard to see in the video) the SUV was in the middle lane and the Audi was in oncoming traffic passing them, and almost hit a white pickup head on at speed. Meanwhile, busses from my son's school are coming in the other lane as well... Sorry for the formatting, I had to merge two clips together and it did something weird. What do you guys use to merge clips?
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CornHolio posted:What do you guys use to merge clips? If it's just 2 separate recording from the same source/settings then: code:
(ffmpeg installation instructions not included) If 2 different recoding types (especially different aspect ratios), either DaVinci Resolve (commercial product but free for personal use with some limiations) or OpenShot (open source, of course free), either way just make sure to start a new project and set the desired resolution on it first, then drag the clips in to the project and make them big/fit as best you can. Lazy option: Upload the clips individually to youtube, add them to a playlist, link people to that.
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avidemux is also super easy to use.
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CornHolio posted:What do you guys use to merge clips?
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 18:07 |
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I use clipchamp and it works pretty well.
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What's the current recommendation for dashcams? I'm on A118-Cs of the finest 2015-2017 vintage still and they have now hosed me multiple times by either just going out to lunch and not recording, corrupting the SD cards, and/or straight up dying. Looking for something a little more reliable, but not looking to spend a zillion dollars. So far it hasn't cost me anything except memories, none of the stuff they have failed to catch was needed as evidence it was just supposed to be part of timelapses of trips and nonsense like that. But it sure isn't making me trust these things at all. If it's been posted recently, I'm perfectly fine with a thread page number/url/whatever reference, I'm just like two thousand pages behind on this megathread and definitely not digging that far myself.
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kastein posted:What's the current recommendation for dashcams? I'm on A118-Cs of the finest 2015-2017 vintage still and they have now hosed me multiple times by either just going out to lunch and not recording, corrupting the SD cards, and/or straight up dying. Looking for something a little more reliable, but not looking to spend a zillion dollars. I have the Viofo A119 V3 in all of our cars and have been very happy with them. e: I also had a problem with corrupted files with previous cameras so I also got the endurance SD cards that are "optimized for dashcams" whatever that means. two_beer_bishes fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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A119 Mini 2 ftw
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:33 |
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Make sure to use the proper memory cards, design specifically to use for cameras
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Nitrox posted:Make sure to use the proper memory cards, design specifically to use for cameras two_beer_bishes posted:e: I also had a problem with corrupted files with previous cameras so I also got the endurance SD cards that are "optimized for dashcams" whatever that means. Look for High Endurance. HE are designed to be written to constantly, such as recording a stream of video whenever your car is on. Regular consumer cards don't expect that level of read/write and will crap out on you every time. See also: running a NAS OS off a USB stick but not realizing that the constant log file writing would keep bricking them and bringing your server down
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Sandisk Max Endurance ftw
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https://i.imgur.com/GPvAYIf.mp4 If there was a way to prove it I'd bet anyone $100 that this was caused by somebody trying to cut across the road to make that exit.
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Platystemon posted:A119 Mini 2 ftw This is what I have, I believe. My only problem with it was a bad cable connecting the rear camera to the front. It presented pretty weirdly so I went through about 4 SD cards before Viofo believed me that the card wasn't the problem, but once they realized it was not the card they were really good about sending me a new cable at no charge. Of course I had to shell out again to have the new cable installed (and the shop broke my steering wheel, which is neither here nor there, just annoying) but it's been working flawlessly since.
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# ? May 26, 2024 17:54 |
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That's a weird thing to even touch, let alone break, during a camera install
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Nitrox posted:That's a weird thing to even touch, let alone break, during a camera install The tech was working on the install when something on his clothes caught on one of the steering wheel buttons and popped it off. We looked everywhere but couldn't find it, so I had to order a new button cluster, which I convinced them to install for free. They should have also paid for the new cluster, but whatever, it was $25. Wroughtirony fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 27, 2024 |
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