What is this insane glare?

[learsiizankcuf]

Day time. That is the sun...

Night time. Street lights...

It is on ALL light sources lol.

Also picture is grainy, especially during day time.

Viofo A119S v2
Has CPL.
CPL, lens, and window are all clean.

Is the camera dying?

 

[gse]

Is the camera dying?

Upload the original video.
You can post the video on the forum, you need to upload it to any file sharing service (Google Drive, etc.) and insert a link to the video on the forum, it will be easier to analyze and give you a hint.
You also need to know the exposure settings, what value?
WDR on or not?
P.S. In your photos, as I understand, you don't like the rays in different directions?
This usually happens when:
1) the glass is dirty from the inside
2) the glass is in small chips from sandblasting.

 

[DT MI]

Are you sure you took all the protection film off the camera lens and CPL (check both sides)?

 

[lufa6977]

Are you sure you took all the protection film off the camera lens and CPL (check both sides)?

Guilty! I did once leave the protective film on the inside of a CPL. It fit so perfectly in there that I completely missed its presence.

 

[learsiizankcuf]

Upload the original video.
You can post the video on the forum, you need to upload it to any file sharing service (Google Drive, etc.) and insert a link to the video on the forum, it will be easier to analyze and give you a hint.
You also need to know the exposure settings, what value?
WDR on or not?
P.S. In your photos, as I understand, you don't like the rays in different directions?
This usually happens when:
1) the glass is dirty from the inside
2) the glass is in small chips from sandblasting.

^ short video
You can see the street lights have huge rays and its size and brightness seem to be magnified 10000x as my car gets closer to them. Especially the first one, it's like a sun lol.

^ Here's someone else's video at night. The street lights have no rays around them. They get bigger and brighter too as the car gets closer but not as exaggerated as in my video.

Exposure is at default 0.
Tried WDR on and off, no difference.

Cleaned the windshield both inside and outside, no difference.

Are you sure you took all the protection film off the camera lens and CPL (check both sides)?

Very sure. I've been using the cam since like 2018 😛 And this only started recently, without me changing anything.

 

[learsiizankcuf]

huh video doesn't seem to show up and I can't edit post it seems.

https://imgur.com/ZFd6jsK

 

[gse]

huh video doesn't seem to show up and I can't edit post it seems.

Can you take a short video outside the windshield?

 

[Nigel]

huh video doesn't seem to show up and I can't edit post it seems.

https://imgur.com/ZFd6jsK

Looks like you have cleaned the glass with wax polish!

Glass should be cleaned with detergent and nothing else, then wiped down with a perfectly clean cloth, or paper towel. You don't want any coatings left on the glass, no softener from the washing machine that washed the cloth you used.

There is definitely something on one of the glass surfaces, but I can't tell which from those images, probably the windshield rather than the camera lens.