Official VIOFO Player Now Available For Windows PC & MAC

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I often see first time Viofo customers asking if Viofo has their own official player.
Well it looks like they do now.
I’m not sure what it does because I don't own a Windows PC, or MAC computer.
But, it looks pretty neat.

viofo app

www.viofo.com www.viofo.com

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I downloaded the Windows version to my Windows 11 laptop. I virus scanned it for good measure and no initial problems were found. I installed the Windows player. The first time I started the app, it took a very, very, very long time to open up the main window to the app. Later invocations of the player app were quick to start. Because the application and its support application maintenancetool.exe are so "new", my Norton antivirus was very unhappy about the maintenancetool.exe running when I attempted to uninstall the VIOFO Player. I had to let the antivirus allow the maintenancetool.exe to run to complete the uninstall.

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Installing the player again, I attempted to play video from a VIOFO A329. I found that if you only select the "Front" camera files, the player will only show the front camera video. If you select the front and rear camera files it will display the front and rear video content at the same time, but you end up with a list of files that will cause the player to play the front footage [rear is the second channel] and then when you click on the button to move to the next file, it shows the rear footage with the front as the second channel. If you're using it to display a dual channel configuration, you shouldn't have to populate the file list with both video files [front & rear] to have the multi-channel display work. Alternatively, the file navigation buttons should move to the next "front" video when you click on the next video button if it knows and is showing the rear as the second channel. It's not the most user friendly. There's also no automatic movement to the next video in the file listing. You must manually click on the prev/next button to move in either direction.

Initial screen with the first language in the list selected:

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Default settings:

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After selecting "English" for the language, MPH for the "Speed Unit" and "Google Map" as the map provider. Changing the map provider requires the app to be restarted.
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If only "Front" video files are selected, the second [rear] channel is not displayed
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If "front" and "rear" video files are selected, the second [rear] video channel content is displayed. The prev/next buttons move through each video file listed making the other channel as the secondary channel for that "current" video file.

Front video is the "current" video file
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Rear video is the "current" video file
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If you download files from the front and rear cameras, then after the simultaneous playback of video from the front and rear cameras,
there will be simultaneous playback of video from the rear and front cameras, which have already been played before.
It turns out that two video files are played twice.
 
If it have half the features of the old registrator viewer it will be a success.

I liked in RV:

Automatic bundling of files into the drive sessions
Ability to export that or parts of that, as i recall in several formats.

And lets not forget i think his name was Vadim who made that excellent little software for us, and his too early demise in a motorcycle accident.
 
okay.

I have not kept up with dedicated players CUZ i dont really use them any more, but RV was excellent in isolating little bits i back then often shared on youtube.
I did have dashcam viewer too, but a licence tied to street guardian brand cameras.
 
Where is the Linux version?
 
Works ok. U have to select all video files in a folder. No way to just tell it to import a whole folder.
 
@rcg530 Thank for the nice tutorial
Any idea why i don't see the gps/speed/directions/etc. I tried Baidu and google maps.
Using the trial of Dashcam Viewer does show me all this info using same video file.

I also have the same problem with the Android Viofo app. I downloaded the file to my phone and do see the recording, but the maps/route and location part of the screen stays white.
Using the same file on a iPhone does show me the map and route.
 
hiker said:
@rcg530 Thank for the nice tutorial
Any idea why i don't see the gps/speed/directions/etc. I tried Baidu and google maps.
Using the trial of Dashcam Viewer does show me all this info using same video file.

I also have the same problem with the Android Viofo app. I downloaded the file to my phone and do see the recording, but the maps/route and location part of the screen stays white.
Using the same file on a iPhone does show me the map and route.
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May I know your camera model and firmware version number, can you send an original video to me to check? You can share it via PM and using the google drive.
 
I have the same problem. Using the app for the PC, I can't see the GPS/Map data on the right, and it doesn't register speed or direction. The video file does display all of this information. Any suggestions?
 
rander said:
I have the same problem. Using the app for the PC, I can't see the GPS/Map data on the right, and it doesn't register speed or direction. The video file does display all of this information. Any suggestions?
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Camera is a A129 running v1.5.
 
I'm playing around with it now on Mac and am enjoying how it loads up video files just about instantly. No processing delays compared to Dashcam Viewer which is super helpful when I've got a huge directory of video clips to look through.

I did notice that the GPS map does throw an error saying the page can't load Google Maps correctly, though the map does show up. The map also has a watermark saying that it's for development purposes only.

Additionally the settings page doesn't make it easy to see what the different options do.

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This is from a directory of files on my computer though. I'm not sure yet if it'd be different when I load in files off of a MicroSD card from the dashcam.
 
VIOFO-Support said:
Please update the firmware to the latest one (V2.5) and test again.
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Looks like the firmware update made things worse. There are two v2.5 firmware files for the A129 Duo. I tried them one at a time with the following results:

FWA129N.bin v2.520241031 installed – REC light flashes 5 times fast and goes steady for 1 second, then flashes 5 times fast again, this pattern is continuous. The REC light never goes steady. It says the firmware is at v2.5. However, it won’t record.

FWA129.bin V2.520241031 installed – REC light flashes fast continuously and never goes steady. It says the firmware is at v2.5. However, it won’t record.

Any other suggestions?
 
rander said:
Looks like the firmware update made things worse. There are two v2.5 firmware files for the A129 Duo. I tried them one at a time with the following results:

FWA129N.bin v2.520241031 installed – REC light flashes 5 times fast and goes steady for 1 second, then flashes 5 times fast again, this pattern is continuous. The REC light never goes steady. It says the firmware is at v2.5. However, it won’t record.

FWA129.bin V2.520241031 installed – REC light flashes fast continuously and never goes steady. It says the firmware is at v2.5. However, it won’t record.

Any other suggestions?
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Can you show us a video about the issue, can you power on the camera after the update?
 
Vortex Radar said:
I'm playing around with it now on Mac and am enjoying how it loads up video files just about instantly. No processing delays compared to Dashcam Viewer which is super helpful when I've got a huge directory of video clips to look through.

I did notice that the GPS map does throw an error saying the page can't load Google Maps correctly, though the map does show up. The map also has a watermark saying that it's for development purposes only.

Additionally the settings page doesn't make it easy to see what the different options do.

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This is from a directory of files on my computer though. I'm not sure yet if it'd be different when I load in files off of a MicroSD card from the dashcam.
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May I know the MAC version?
 
The camera does power up after the update. The firmware level reported in the VIOFO app is now v2.5. Just can't get it to record. REC light is flashing fast, but it won't record anything. I recorded video from the phone and the front of the VIOFO device, but this site won't let me upload it because it's too large. Let me know if you have another site I can transfer it to.
 
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