Video length

[Billzilla]

Currently at three minutes, is there a way to make the individual videos longer? Say, ten minutes?

 

[kwirk]

It's not officially supported, but there is a way to change the video length to 5 minutes and 10 minutes. I found at 1080p 30fps at 10 minutes, the video files were getting to be around 1.2GB each, so are fairly large to download.

This isn't support, so use at own risk! This was on the latest US firmware.

If you connect to the dashcam via wifi, then follow these links in order:
http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=8001
http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=3001&par=1
http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=2001&par=0

Then one of the links below:
3mins: http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=2003&par=1
5mins: http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=2003&par=2
10mins: http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=2003&par=3

And finally:
http://192.168.1.254/?custom=1&cmd=8002


I've not tested setting the option via the above process, but I have tested using my WIP Python interface (see thread: https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/yi-dash-cam-python-library-and-web-app.21100/ ) and I was getting 5 and 10 minutes videos; the commands above should be the same as what my Python code sent...

from yidashcam import YIDashcam
from yidashcam.config import Option, VideoLength
with YIDashcam() as yi:
    #yi.set_config(Option.video_length, VideoLength.three_minutes)
    #yi.set_config(Option.video_length, VideoLength.five_minutes)
    yi.set_config(Option.video_length, VideoLength.ten_minutes)

 

[Billzilla]

Thanks, but I have no idea what any of that is.

 

[kwirk]

Sorry Billzilla. Unfortunately as it's an unsupported feature there's no simple method of changing the setting.

Basically, if you connect to your camera via WiFi, with your laptop/tablet/phone and then click each of those hyperlinks in order (obviously only one of the three length options) it should change the setting for you.

 

[nfshp253]

Any way to increase the bitrate?