[CiniO]

Originally Posted by Nissan doctor

He wanted to continue on the M50, every sign, road, and lane marking was telling him that the lane he was in did not do this so, IMO, this means he paid no attention to his surroundings on a busy motorway for at least close to 2kms!

I agree with you, but are you 100% certain, he really knew he wanted to go on M50?
Maybe he just wasn't sure if he needed to exit on n2 or continue over m50.
For you and me it's obvious what m50 is, but for someone else m50 might mean nothing (especialy for foreigners in rented cars).

[Nissan doctor]

Originally Posted by CiniO

I agree with you, but are you 100% certain, he really knew he wanted to go on M50?
Maybe he just wasn't sure if he needed to exit on n2 or continue over m50.
For you and me it's obvious what m50 is, but for someone else m50 might mean nothing (especialy for foreigners in rented cars).

I agree with the rented cars/tourist comment, I've made errors myself when abroad, but this wasn't a rental car, it was just another Irish driver paying no attention to actually driving.

I mean making an error is one thing, we can all do that, but he then causes the Golf in lane one of the M50 to brake and almost swerve and as Iwent passed the driver and passenger were laughing to each other

[ardmacha]

For you and me it's obvious what m50 is, but for someone else m50 might mean nothing (especialy for foreigners in rented cars).

Someone should check their map before going on to the M50. And it doesn't matter who they are, they should not be driving like that. If you are in the wrong lane stay there, you don't have a right to endanger other motorists because you are a bollix.

[Pottler]

Originally Posted by CiniO

Most likely it won't be any help to most of you here, but I'll put it here just in case someone needs it.
Over last year I collected few most interesting recordings from my dashcams on my harddrive (interesting road situation, places i've been to, etc). I just realised it's nearly 100GB data, which is quite a lot.
It's so much mostly due to cheap dashcams don't use any advanced compression methods - they just use most basic and very little hardware demanding codecs and unfortunately their result files are big. I've been writing some time ago, that Smartcam which I bought uses about 16kbit/s bitrate for it's 720p video which is unneceserily way too much. My other older camera is not much better.
So generally I decided I'll convert them all to H264 codec with 3600 kbit/s bitrate which after few tries I tested that it's enough without really any quality loss.
Unfortunately it was over 300 files spread in nice tidy way into directory tree, so it would be hell lot's of work to convert each separately.
That's why I wrote a little bash script for linux which using mencoder did all the job for me. It took long (nearly 2 days for all files) but was full automatic.
This script finds all files in all subdirectories of directory it was run, and converts all files with AVI extension, writing result file with additional S on begining of filename, with option to erase original file.
It can be very easily adjusted with few options in script file on top.
If anyone wants to make use of it, I attached it below, but I don't take any responsibility if it's going to work correctly for everyone.
It's just something I wrote anyway to solve my own problem, so I decided maybe someone here might need the same.

As a result I shrinked size of those recording from about 100GB to less than 25GB so I could fit all of them into single BD-R.

Thanks for this ^ Cinio. I now feel more stupid than I did yesterday.

[cormie]

Folks, anyone have a link to the latest firmware version for the DRS-1100 X-Driven, Roadhawk RH-1, Ub1 (all the same product, just different names). Been googling for the last 15 minutes with no luck

[vibe666]

ouch.



doesn't appear to have saved anyone's ass tho.

[Kenny Logins]

Originally Posted by vibe666

ouch.



doesn't appear to have saved anyone's ass tho.

Jesus! What was the story there? That Ferrari didn't even appear to brake.

[ottostreet]

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Kenny Logins]

[TheBazman]

Jesus Chrriiisttt!!

[ScrubsfanChris]

Real shame about the woman in the taxi, but I have to sympathies for the Ferrari driver..

[LaughingJoker91]

Not entirely a dash cam video, but thought someone might get a chuckle from it like me



Edit:Skip to around 50 seconds in for the show off and crash.

[Max Power1]

Originally Posted by ShadowHearth

Omfg it's bad, but I really loled. It's in Russian.

When fella started to kick the living shiet out of that man the girl says:

- he is an idiot or what?
-who?!
- why is he beating him?
- so he would not jump in front of the car...

Best thing for that idiot (the guy tryiong to commit suicide)

What a completely sh!tty thing to do. The driver (if there was no dashcam) would be hauled through the courts for dangerous driving and manslaughter. Because of one muppet? Id like to think id have done the same

[Shane732]

Wow I didn't think there would be this much on dash cams.

I'm currently looking at getting one of these. My options are either go for a proper cam or use an iphone app.

I assume the proper cams are far superior than the iphone app?

Is the roadhawk generally recognized as the best option?

[LaughingJoker91]

Originally Posted by Shane732

Wow I didn't think there would be this much on dash cams.

I'm currently looking at getting one of these. My options are either go for a proper cam or use an iphone app.

I assume the proper cams are far superior than the iphone app?

Is the roadhawk generally recognized as the best option?

Spend an hour or so and have a read through the thread, lot of discussion earlier about mobile apps.

I use an app, and have no problems with it. Only problem is 30 seconds to set it up when I get into the car, a standalone camera will start/stop when the car starts/stops.

But most high end phones will have better video capability the a lot of the dash cams (unless you get a HD one).