dashing_gentleman
New Member
Hi,
I am currently thinking about buying the B1W. However, In the country I am from (Germany) it is not allowed to shoot constant video as this would invade the privacy rights of other drivers and pedestrians. I was thinking it might be feasible to use the parking mode while driving to only record under heavy breaking or after an impact. Has anyone tested the parking mode while driving and what are your experiences? This mode might be prone to errors or may not record every accident rendering the camera useless.
My second idea would be to reserve around 85 percent of the space on the sdcard (4 gb) via the app-setting and have the camera only record two or three short clips and then overwrite them with new footage immediately.
This way the data would be written to the same blocks of the memory card over and over and therefore the sd would have to be formated quite often to expand its lifetime. Maybe it's possible to release a firmware that starts with wifi off and has a format sd option upon double click or something similar. However I think it is still not legal to save any data to video in Germany. The better solution might be to have the camera write to ram and only save the video once the user presses the lock video button on the camera. It's probably not possible to exchange the ram of the B1W (how big is it anyways?) but this might be a good idea for a future model.
I am currently thinking about buying the B1W. However, In the country I am from (Germany) it is not allowed to shoot constant video as this would invade the privacy rights of other drivers and pedestrians. I was thinking it might be feasible to use the parking mode while driving to only record under heavy breaking or after an impact. Has anyone tested the parking mode while driving and what are your experiences? This mode might be prone to errors or may not record every accident rendering the camera useless.
My second idea would be to reserve around 85 percent of the space on the sdcard (4 gb) via the app-setting and have the camera only record two or three short clips and then overwrite them with new footage immediately.
This way the data would be written to the same blocks of the memory card over and over and therefore the sd would have to be formated quite often to expand its lifetime. Maybe it's possible to release a firmware that starts with wifi off and has a format sd option upon double click or something similar. However I think it is still not legal to save any data to video in Germany. The better solution might be to have the camera write to ram and only save the video once the user presses the lock video button on the camera. It's probably not possible to exchange the ram of the B1W (how big is it anyways?) but this might be a good idea for a future model.