A229 Pro user.
Thank you so much for the 3840x1600 option!
I have a speedometer mounted above my steering wheel on the dash, and had to aim the camera lens upwards a little too high at 3840x2160 beforehand to keep the speedometer out of sight. 3840x1600 allowed the camera to be aimed 60% ground 40% sky without showing the speedometer due to the cropping
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I was truly curious to see if the bitrate changed when set to 3840x1600. Bitrate stayed the same, which is awesome, as it means that the area that was not cropped, has more data applied to it, resulting in much better image stability and clarity. Please consider adding more resolutions that are even more vertically limited to increase the quality as the h264 codec and bitrate is not up to par with the quality of the lens
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Some ideas.
1- It would be nice if it is hardware feasible, to add higher bitrates for the cameras.
2- Label the bitrates by the ~bitrate amount? Still could keep the names like maximum next to the bitrate on that screen.
3- Resolutions that are more cropped vertically, gives more bitrate in the leftover resolution. My rear dashcam I can barely use due to Louvers on my rear window, so if there was a way to severely limit the vertical resolution, the bitrate would be, WAY more effective in retaining what the lens sees. It also means reduced heat (less processor usage). Not sure if h265/av1 encoding is too heavy on the processor/s or even feasible, but that would be great if it does have enough oomph to add it, or even more bitrate would be huge on its own. I do realise that the A229 Pro maintains bitrate with extra cameras added and that very well could be due to it being h264 perhaps, where h265 might be overwhelming as it is more intensive to encode into, especially for multiple cameras. So in short, is there any hardware feasibility to have h.265 aka HEVC/AV1, higher bitrate, or have more vertically limited resolutions to have the current maximum bitrate be more effective per pixel?
4- The beta APK on android, didn't show 3840x1600 in the app, so I had to set it from the dash cam itself. I know it is beta, just making sure it isn't missed if it hasn't been mentioned already.
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5- Let me know if I can help out in any way or test some things out, I would be more than willing to help Viofo take it to another level ;P.
6- Keep being awesome, and keep staying in touch with your user base
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