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I can't see it being anything too involved to sort out
Any word from @traveler ?
CRS
I'm sure it will be a dashcamviewer/software related fix.
Sorry guys, just finishing up some business travel and am playing catch-up with my emails.
So to clarify: is the issue that the Mac version 2.7.3 is showing GPS but the Windows v2.7.3 is not? Both use the same engine so I'd be surprised if this was the case. Anyway, I'll test the sample DC movie you sent me when I get home. If it's a software error on my part it should be easy to fix.
John
http://dashcamviewer.com
@venezian, thanks for the detailed info. What's curious is that of the 5 video screenshots, only one shows your speed in the video itself "40 MPH" in the bottom right. I would expect the speed to be shown in all the clips all the time.
As for the Dashcam Viewer issues, @Street Guardian USA is going to send me a demo unit so I can better debug issues. But if you have a chance can you send me your files to investigate (use https://wetransfer.com for large files)?
@CRS 123 , the first file of a drive may not contain GPS data since the GPS unit may not have achieved lock.
I recently made some changes to the PiP window so that its size is saved from run-to-run. You should still be able to zoom the window using the mouse wheel or the 'q' and 'e' keys if the cursor is in the 2nd video frame. If not, then maybe I messed something up. I'll look into it on my end.
John
http://dashcamviewer.com
the way @venezian describes the speed coming and going in the actual video makes it sound like it didn't have a good gps lock, or maybe the gps antenna has a loose/bad connection. the fact that DCV is showing anything at all is probably just it trying to make a best guess based on the intermittent info it has from the file.
Yes it is. I'm wondering if other Mac users are experiencing the same thing...and if so what OS are they using. I'm currently 10.9.5 . DashCam viewer site says it's software is compatible from 10.8 or so.is your speed showing consistently in the video?
Yes it is. .
I have noticed the same behavior with Dashcam viewer.One more quirk I've noticed. On multiple occasions while playing back files in DashViewer, the rear camera file fails to load. There is no second camera selection at the top of the window, and toggling back and forth from the previous file does not help. Here's the thing.....in the file folder, the "B" file exists, and will play in quicktime. If I remove "B"from the file name, Dashviewer will play it as a single file...the file seems healthy with no corruption. If I transfer the front and back files to a new folder on the desktop and load those files into dash viewer, the rear file still will not load. What I'm guessing is that some sort of header info or code isn't being written to the rear file that tells dash viewer to play it? I'm obviously no code expert If it were a bad sector on the card, I would suspect the whole file would be corrupt. Kind of a mystery. Out of a couple hour drive....there are always a few files like this that I run across as check certain playback areas.
Cheers
CRS
yeah there's still some bugs there that need to be sorted, to be fair John never had much in the way of sample files to work with so if there was some type of anomaly when loading multiple files he never got to see it just due to the impracticality of how much data it was possible to transfer to him, we've sent him a camera to put in his own car though so hopefully that will help on the data collection side of thingsI have noticed the same behavior with Dashcam viewer.
I am a paid subscriber to Dashcam viewer and it was a waste of money in my opinion. GPS is not important to me, but quality and smoothness of playback is, and it fails miserably in this area. Quicktime is free and works perfectly so I will be staying with that for the foreseeable future.