Nigel
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So I was waiting at some traffic lights the other day and a couple of hooligans came up behind (the two black cars that arrive as the lights turn green), later on I see them overtake on the wrong side of a traffic island with one of those flashy speed warning signs on it and protecting a turn into a side road on a blind bend, no way was it a safe overtake. Luckily I had the A129 Pro, and that can see things happening in the distance when most cameras would have recorded nothing useful, so I tried to send it into the police.
Lesson learned: When uploading video to a police website that only accepts original unedited files, if the event spans two loop recording files and the police server has a maximum total upload limit of 2.5GB, you had better be using 1 minute loop recording, which I wasn't! Having broken the rules and edited off the useless end of the files, I got it to start uploading, but then it encountered an internet glitch and gave up, no automatic retry, no manual retry, apparently everything lost, although it did say it had sent it for investigation. I gave up wondering if they would still look at the text, but have heard nothing, so I might as well post an edited version, it's too late for them to deal with it now:
(Note that I was sticking to the speed limit, anyone going faster wasn't, and a lot of the video is zoomed in x2, uploaded at 1080.)
Lesson learned: When uploading video to a police website that only accepts original unedited files, if the event spans two loop recording files and the police server has a maximum total upload limit of 2.5GB, you had better be using 1 minute loop recording, which I wasn't! Having broken the rules and edited off the useless end of the files, I got it to start uploading, but then it encountered an internet glitch and gave up, no automatic retry, no manual retry, apparently everything lost, although it did say it had sent it for investigation. I gave up wondering if they would still look at the text, but have heard nothing, so I might as well post an edited version, it's too late for them to deal with it now:
(Note that I was sticking to the speed limit, anyone going faster wasn't, and a lot of the video is zoomed in x2, uploaded at 1080.)