Yes, back in early March. John said he would add it to his "job jar."have you submitted any files?
Yes, back in early March. John said he would add it to his "job jar."have you submitted any files?
@traveler any chance you could look into my issue with the file naming here ^Just downloaded V3 and tried it on my Windows 10 machine with my SG DC cams. All I can say is wow! Seems so much slicker than before and PiP is an absolute godsend. Thanks for finally adding it!
The only issue I have is that sometimes the files aren't named exactly the same front and rear, with the seconds being slightly out by 1 or 2 and therefore the files don't sync up and PiP isn't available for such files. Please can you sort this out?
This is the only thing I've noticed in the 10 mins I've been playing with it....
@Travler has a SG9663DC so I’m sure he can take a closer look. Maybe share some example files too though.
@mcaf123 Sure, but let me ask a couple of questions to better understand the issue :
>The only issue I have is that sometimes the files aren't named exactly the same front and rear, with the seconds being slightly out by 1 or 2
1) Are the front and rear movies out-of-sync by 1 or 2 seconds from each other when you play them together, or are they in perfect sync despite the filenames being different?
2) [Perhaps @jokiin would know the answer:] Is the fact that the filenames are off by 1 or 2 seconds an issue with the dashcam itself (perhaps a clock setting would fix it), a problem with an early firmware version, or is it intended to work this way? Dashcam Viewer uses matching filenames to identify matching pairs of front/rear files so knowing the file naming scheme, and its variants, is important. I'm asking because if this file-naming issue is corrected with a firmware update then it doesn't make sense for me to workaround it.
3) Which firmware are you using?
4) Can you email me a file listing of your SD card that contains front/rear pairs so I can see the variants?
Thanks! - John
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I remember you mentioning something like that last time a couple of us brought it up. However, can it really be normal to not have the filename and actual recording be one second out like I have shown above?I queried the engineers previously when the file naming convention was brought up and they said it was normal and expected
OK. Perfectly logical explanation thenit can't write the two files simultaneously, there is a delay as the data is written from memory to the card and at times that is going to fall either side of the same second
While that is a perfectly valid reason for the phenomenon an easy 'fix' would be save the date/time when the first (front) file is created and use it when creating the second (rear) file. Likely would entail only 2 lines of code in the firmware.it can't write the two files simultaneously, there is a delay as the data is written from memory to the card and at times that is going to fall either side of the same second
While that is a perfectly valid reason for the phenomenon an easy 'fix' would be save the date/time when the first (front) file is created and use it when creating the second (rear) file. Likely would entail only 2 lines of code in the firmware.
The more 'interesting' (and from a playback software perspective - problematic) issue is the occasional creation of the rear 'B' file before the front 'A' file.
OK, I was being a bit facetious but the issue could easily be rectified.nothing is ever two lines of code in the firmware (wish it was),...
On a more serious note, the bigger problem from a playback perspective is the creation of the rear 'B' file before the front 'A' file. That would be a bit more difficult scenario for the playback S/W to reliably identify - especially S/W that's intended to handle files from multiple cameras/manufactures, the more exception processing the less stable the program and more difficult to implement changes.
Well, at this point in time I know DashcamViewer (ver 3) does not recognize the relationship when 'B' comes before 'A'.I don't think the order they appear in is that relevant when they have such a clear identifier, front camera files are A, rear are B, that bit is consistent