NeoteriX
New Member
Hey all! I’ve been having the issue of intermittently losing a short amount of time recording on my Viofo A119 Mini currently mounted rearward (and something I’m not seeing with my A119 Mini 2, currently mounted forward).
The way this issue will present itself is on a continuous single drive, I will normally expect to see the same second time repeat through all of the videos, if the camera is correctly writing a new file every two minutes. I will also often see the same file size repeat itself (typically 404MB, though I know there is variable bitrate). In the screenshot below, I had a quick drive to Dunkin Donuts this morning and the car was on the entire time. You can see several times that the file size and second time changes, and those clips are less than 2 minutes long and have missing time intervals.
This is something that has been happening in some way for a while, and I’d done a variety of steps including starting with a “Samsung PRO Endurance 256GB” sd card, completely formatting it on my PC using the official SD Association card formatter, finding out that the Samsung cards are actually not recommended, and so recently switching to Sandisk Max Endurance 256GB cards. For the most recent run, I put the card in as-is from the factory, I’ll next try formally formatting with the SD association app, but I’m not feeling optimistic here.
Does anyone have any thoughts? What am I missing here?
I currently have the A119 Mini set to the following settings:
The way this issue will present itself is on a continuous single drive, I will normally expect to see the same second time repeat through all of the videos, if the camera is correctly writing a new file every two minutes. I will also often see the same file size repeat itself (typically 404MB, though I know there is variable bitrate). In the screenshot below, I had a quick drive to Dunkin Donuts this morning and the car was on the entire time. You can see several times that the file size and second time changes, and those clips are less than 2 minutes long and have missing time intervals.
This is something that has been happening in some way for a while, and I’d done a variety of steps including starting with a “Samsung PRO Endurance 256GB” sd card, completely formatting it on my PC using the official SD Association card formatter, finding out that the Samsung cards are actually not recommended, and so recently switching to Sandisk Max Endurance 256GB cards. For the most recent run, I put the card in as-is from the factory, I’ll next try formally formatting with the SD association app, but I’m not feeling optimistic here.
Does anyone have any thoughts? What am I missing here?
I currently have the A119 Mini set to the following settings:
- 2560x1440/60 fps, with audio recording
- Loop recording every 2 minutes
- HDR auto, only on in the evenings
- Bitrate High
- GPS on
- Firmware: A119 Mini_V1.1.20230420
- App Version 3.2.14
- I turned on the power on/off sounds to see if there’s some kind of power loss that coincides with this, but I do not hear any power on/off sounds.
- The loss of doesn’t seem to coincide with any big bumps in the road or anything (pointing to a jostling of the 12V or an internally frayed wire), in fact I’ve observed this happening when the car is still or nearly still (in a parking spot or waiting in a drive thru)
- With the Sandisk Max Endurance 256GB on the A119 Mini V2 (with a factory format) the recording looks to be good and consistent
