I have a wonky question about loop recording. I hope I can be clear on what I'm asking.
My dash cam is set to record in 3 minute segments. When the card gets full, the camera records over the existing files...thus it is loop recording.
Because my camera is hooked up to an ignition switched outlet...whenever I turn off the car...the file being written is closed. Odds are that the file being written at that moment is less than 3 minutes in length. So the reality is that most of the files on my card will be 3 minutes in length, but not all.
Now to my question.
Imagine my card has 5 files on it, and it is full.
Supposed the file "lengths" were as follows:
1) 3 minutes
2) 2 minutes
3) 1 minutes
4) 3 minutes
5) 2 minutes
When the camera loops around and "reuses" files 2, 3 and 5...does it only record again at the same length? Or does it try to record the fill 3 minutes?
I guess what I'm asking is, does loop recording mean the files are reused?
Or are the existing files deleted and replaced (one-by-one) and then the space reused for a different file?
My dash cam is set to record in 3 minute segments. When the card gets full, the camera records over the existing files...thus it is loop recording.
Because my camera is hooked up to an ignition switched outlet...whenever I turn off the car...the file being written is closed. Odds are that the file being written at that moment is less than 3 minutes in length. So the reality is that most of the files on my card will be 3 minutes in length, but not all.
Now to my question.
Imagine my card has 5 files on it, and it is full.
Supposed the file "lengths" were as follows:
1) 3 minutes
2) 2 minutes
3) 1 minutes
4) 3 minutes
5) 2 minutes
When the camera loops around and "reuses" files 2, 3 and 5...does it only record again at the same length? Or does it try to record the fill 3 minutes?
I guess what I'm asking is, does loop recording mean the files are reused?
Or are the existing files deleted and replaced (one-by-one) and then the space reused for a different file?