N2rock
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Their viewer is quite frankly garbage!
I extracted a file to my computer and tried to play with VLC, but it won't play it properly. The file type is MP4, which VLC normally plays just fine. But this file won't. So I downloaded their crappy viewer, it plays the file, but it's not a good player by any stretch of the imagination. So I figure that maybe they have other things stuffed into the file (IE: GPS info) which might be why VLC doesn't understand that file. The viewer itself has an "export", so I think that maybe that will output a file that I can playback with other player. Nope, it simply pulls the file from the mini SD, and then copies it to where you tell it. It doesn't change anything in the process, so VLC still won't play it.
The only way I have successfully gotten a playable file is to use the Blackvue app on my phone, copy the file directly from the dashcam to the app (via it's internal wifi), then from the app save the file to my videos (on my phone), send that video to my dropbox, then access my dropbox from my PC. That's way too many steps!!! There's gotta be a better way to get videos from the dashcam to a computer.
I extracted a file to my computer and tried to play with VLC, but it won't play it properly. The file type is MP4, which VLC normally plays just fine. But this file won't. So I downloaded their crappy viewer, it plays the file, but it's not a good player by any stretch of the imagination. So I figure that maybe they have other things stuffed into the file (IE: GPS info) which might be why VLC doesn't understand that file. The viewer itself has an "export", so I think that maybe that will output a file that I can playback with other player. Nope, it simply pulls the file from the mini SD, and then copies it to where you tell it. It doesn't change anything in the process, so VLC still won't play it.
The only way I have successfully gotten a playable file is to use the Blackvue app on my phone, copy the file directly from the dashcam to the app (via it's internal wifi), then from the app save the file to my videos (on my phone), send that video to my dropbox, then access my dropbox from my PC. That's way too many steps!!! There's gotta be a better way to get videos from the dashcam to a computer.