Nigel
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The coordinates could be useful evidence in a court, but I agree that they are not understandable without a lot of effort, and normally in a court case the location is not in doubt anyway. I normally turn the coordinates off because I don't think they are useful, but they should stay available for those who want them. The name of the location would be nice, but that is why we store the GPS data, so the video player in the app can display the names.I can't agree with you, Nigel.
I may say that much less valuable info in stamp now is GPS coordinates - because nobody can't in own mind convert geo coords to geo location (country/city/street name) without some software or web service. And this coordinates also is stored additionally in MP4 tags inside each video file.
The MP4 tags, I assume you mean EXIF tags, are not so useful because you only have one set of GPS coordinates per video file, so if you are moving they are not accurate, although they would probably still be sufficient for a court case.
You seem to be agreeing that it is diagnostic data.But HDR enabled/disabled state is not stored nowhere except stamp. And then someone post one of blurred license plate video/frame shot you may only assume that in was due HDR is ON at this moment. But you probably may be not right in your assumption. So I voted for HDR stamp info for all of cameras depend on current state. And also support @vvs49 in part that HDR should turn ON/OFF without delays and without stop rec current file and start record a new file.
I would support putting the HDR state in the EXIF tags in the file properties, I don't know if it ever changes mid file, but we really only need one update per file, it does not need to be on the status line and updated every frame.
It might be nice to be able to turn on an extra status line full of exposure information, including HDR state. Currently Viofo build a special diagnostic version of the firmware when they want to see those diagnostics, it would be much easier to enter the setup to turn it on.I'll be really happy if I may get additional info for each video frame like other video parameters but I may only assume that it was (exposition time, ISO value, etc...) - that's all helps understand that was incorrect in internal algorithms at different conditions so we are able to help Viofo to fix it and improve video quality. I won't assume additionally about current HDR state. May be then HDR be work at any light conditions amazing like a charm I'll change my opinion but not now.
However that information is not easy to understand, it is never as easy as understanding the manual exposure settings on a photo camera, so I don't expect to see this added.
Let's just put it on the video subtitles, so that you can turn it on and off while playing the video.What I really want is the option to choose the text overlay be displayed at the top, or bottom of the recorded footage.
Agreed, it is hard to understand why they don't use the same text overlay software for every camera!Why can’t we have a single “modular” text overlay format that is identical on every camera.
It’s like every camera is a one-off specialty. Lol
We keep getting the same bugs that need to be sorted before release, so that there is no time to develop an auto-scale version that looks the same on every resolution.