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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?
I forget which Youtube channel I saw it on, but one of the people who covers dashcams a lot went in depth on license plate visibility and basically demonstrated that a standard wide angle dashcam view is just never going to be amazing. Some are a bit better than others but if you really want to reliably capture plates you want a different lens that shoots a much narrower angle focused purely on where license plates are.

There's a reason police cars with ALPR systems have a half dozen cameras mounted everywhere, all with big lenses aimed low.

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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?
My A129 Pro Duo has been mostly fine, the first summer it had a bug where sometimes it'd rotate files and something would get stuck leading to the same video frame being all that was recorded for the rest of the session. A firmware update seems to have resolved that, I haven't had it happen since.

wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?

CornHolio posted:

What do you guys use to merge clips?
LosslessCut, which AFAIK is basically a GUI that runs ffmpeg underneath. It doesn't actually re-encode the video so it can only cut or join at keyframes and any joined clips have to be the same format but that also means it operates more or less at the speed of your disks and maintains the original quality.

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