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06 March 2010, 06:01 PM
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I used bodykit tape that I had lying around., just the same stuff as mirror pads.
I switch on the camera and press record, then put it in its holder.
Then remove from holder and press stop record.
Just that I find it easier that way, big fat fingers here.
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I switch on the camera and press record, then put it in its holder.
Then remove from holder and press stop record.
Just that I find it easier that way, big fat fingers here.
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06 March 2010, 08:23 PM
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Ah well same seller as you bought yours from, mine was more expensive and never even came with the adapter - oh well !!!
time I buy the adapter wont be such a bargain after all !!
in saying that guys I take it there is no real need for adapter ?? you can just hook the cam back up to the pc via the usb lead and read the card from there - yep ??
p.s bit wary about inserting the little micro sd card in the actual cam !! I take it it goes in narrow end first with the writting on the card face down ie. cam bracket side ??
time I buy the adapter wont be such a bargain after all !!
in saying that guys I take it there is no real need for adapter ?? you can just hook the cam back up to the pc via the usb lead and read the card from there - yep ??
p.s bit wary about inserting the little micro sd card in the actual cam !! I take it it goes in narrow end first with the writting on the card face down ie. cam bracket side ??
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06 March 2010, 09:16 PM
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Ah well same seller as you bought yours from,
in saying that guys I take it there is no real need for adapter ?? you can just hook the cam back up to the pc via the usb lead and read the card from there - yep ??
p.s bit wary about inserting the little micro sd card in the actual cam !! I take it it goes in narrow end first with the writting on the card face down ie. cam bracket side ??
in saying that guys I take it there is no real need for adapter ?? you can just hook the cam back up to the pc via the usb lead and read the card from there - yep ??
p.s bit wary about inserting the little micro sd card in the actual cam !! I take it it goes in narrow end first with the writting on the card face down ie. cam bracket side ??
So correct the USB cable handles your files to your PC from the cam.
Pic of way round the card needs to go in relation to the cam. It can only go in this way. Push it in you will feel resistance against a spring, then click into place. Usually you have to use your fingernail to click it in.
06 March 2010, 10:54 PM
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Having problems in finding this Amcap icon that was supposdly installed when I installed the driver software from the mini disc ??? driver came up saying sucusfully installed but as I say just cant find the Amcap icon anywhere ??
anyone else have this problem ??
anyone else have this problem ??
06 March 2010, 11:18 PM
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Okay nothing found in prog files either, am going to remove the driver software and reinstall it and see if that helps ??
to be honest the only reason I want the webcam is to set the cam up ie to see where best to locate the cam for recording and just thought it would be ideal to use the webcam function for this ie plug the laptop into the cam and I can see what the cam is actually looking at.
sorry to be a pain !! if I did not have this webcam function would I still need to install the driver if I wanted to just view /transfer the contents off the recorded footage off the card via the cam - usb lead method ??
to be honest the only reason I want the webcam is to set the cam up ie to see where best to locate the cam for recording and just thought it would be ideal to use the webcam function for this ie plug the laptop into the cam and I can see what the cam is actually looking at.
sorry to be a pain !! if I did not have this webcam function would I still need to install the driver if I wanted to just view /transfer the contents off the recorded footage off the card via the cam - usb lead method ??
07 March 2010, 01:54 AM
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Okay thanks for your continued support appreciatte that !!
okay now got the camera working with my little netbook, never bothered with the webcam driver and the netbook has no cd / dvd drive anyway !!
so okay want to try and edit the date / time on the cam via the above instructions, can I edit the sd card via the cam plugged into the pc via the usb cable ?? or would I require an actual card reader to be able to get into the route off the card itself to make this new text file ??
07 March 2010, 11:11 AM
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Found a little micro sd adapter laying around so popped the little micro sd ccard into it and put the adapter card into the card reader, unfortunatly this is where the non compatablty comes in guess the reader will not see this particular type off micro sd, pity !!
so okay any other way to edit the date / time on the cam via just the cam / usb lead ??
so okay any other way to edit the date / time on the cam via just the cam / usb lead ??
07 March 2010, 02:58 PM
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Dude you're really overcomplicating things lol, just create the txt file on your PC and copy it over to the SDCard. You will see the SDcard in mycomputer as a drive when the cam is connected to your PC over USB.
btw for the webcam part, when the cam is plugged in over USB press the mode button then it should fireup the webcam app, assuming you still have the driver installed.
btw for the webcam part, when the cam is plugged in over USB press the mode button then it should fireup the webcam app, assuming you still have the driver installed.
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07 March 2010, 03:14 PM
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Found a little micro sd adapter laying around so popped the little micro sd ccard into it and put the adapter card into the card reader, unfortunatly this is where the non compatablty comes in guess the reader will not see this particular type off micro sd, pity !!
so okay any other way to edit the date / time on the cam via just the cam / usb lead ??
so okay any other way to edit the date / time on the cam via just the cam / usb lead ??
hth
07 March 2010, 05:00 PM
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blank memory card, found TAG file on cd, copy and paste this TAG file onto the blank memory card, unplugged the camera, plugged it back in, TAG file gone but still the same date as what was originally in the TAG file off the cd ??
any ideas ??
07 March 2010, 05:13 PM
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If anyones interested, I have sorted how to change the date! thanks to scooby1doo1's you tube post. I found the solution in the comments of the video.
On the supplied software disc is a file named TXT, open it, change the date and time (in the same format) to the current time and date and then save it in the folder that the camera comes up as in My Computer.
It worked for me.
On the supplied software disc is a file named TXT, open it, change the date and time (in the same format) to the current time and date and then save it in the folder that the camera comes up as in My Computer.
It worked for me.
07 March 2010, 06:03 PM
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Okay tried exactly that but for some reason the date / time on the camera is staying the same as the one I copied over from the TAG file which was on the cd ??
blank memory card, found TAG file on cd, copy and paste this TAG file onto the blank memory card, unplugged the camera, plugged it back in, TAG file gone but still the same date as what was originally in the TAG file off the cd ??
any ideas ??
blank memory card, found TAG file on cd, copy and paste this TAG file onto the blank memory card, unplugged the camera, plugged it back in, TAG file gone but still the same date as what was originally in the TAG file off the cd ??
any ideas ??
07 March 2010, 07:02 PM
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Yep okay getting there now, have succusfully changed the date / time unfortunatly have the sequence a bit out ie. have the month / day the wrong way around.
so okay todays date is the 7/2/2010 do I input this as 2010 /02/07 or 2010/07/02, as I say just about there just need to get the date the correct way around !!!
so okay todays date is the 7/2/2010 do I input this as 2010 /02/07 or 2010/07/02, as I say just about there just need to get the date the correct way around !!!
07 March 2010, 09:32 PM
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Well it was feb when I first started asking you all these never ending questions !!!!!!
appreciatte your continued support mate think I am there now !!!!
appreciatte your continued support mate think I am there now !!!!
08 March 2010, 04:40 PM
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OK numptie alert regarding editing the recordings...
It records an avi file but its huge, 200meg for a few mins. Is there free software that can edit it (chop the start and finish where I'm turning on camera and loading into holder) and also save it in a consensed format that does'nt affect quality?
help!
It records an avi file but its huge, 200meg for a few mins. Is there free software that can edit it (chop the start and finish where I'm turning on camera and loading into holder) and also save it in a consensed format that does'nt affect quality?
help!
08 March 2010, 04:45 PM
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Thats uncompressed AVI Shirley? Using MPEG4 or H.264 compression (Audio Video Interleave is simply the way its recorded) it should be a fraction of that size.
08 March 2010, 05:34 PM
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well mine lasted a day...well 2 recordings lol 1st recording worked great, then next recording i did for quite abit longer, when i came to view it back it had snipped it into around 2min clips which wasnt a prob but also mid way through it lost sound....and thats how it stands no matter what i try no sound, but tbf to sellers theyve said send it back and theyl send a replacement out asap
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Just a thought but have your tried viewing the recordings via another pc just to see if it is possibly a fault with the media player software itself ??
you buy it via a uk seller ?? if not what would postage to HK / china be ?? possibly just better spending another £12 on another one if its not a uk seller !!!
from experience its more than likely a uk based seller as vary rarely do HK / chinese sellers ask for you to sendanything back, again from personaly experience they seem to be a very trusting lot these guys !!!
but again would try a different pc / alternative media player just incase its something wrong with this as opposed to the actual cam.
let us know how you get on- good luck !!
you buy it via a uk seller ?? if not what would postage to HK / china be ?? possibly just better spending another £12 on another one if its not a uk seller !!!
from experience its more than likely a uk based seller as vary rarely do HK / chinese sellers ask for you to sendanything back, again from personaly experience they seem to be a very trusting lot these guys !!!
but again would try a different pc / alternative media player just incase its something wrong with this as opposed to the actual cam.
let us know how you get on- good luck !!
11 March 2010, 07:43 AM
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Okay guys thought this thread would have kept on going now that a lot off us are receiving our cameras and having a chance to give them a little road test ??!!
have now mounted mine as per the suggestion / pics a few pages back ( thanks for the tips / idea !! ) the only thing I notice is that for some reason the little camera is now refusing to lock into posistion within the mount, can only think that the little tabs on the corners have come off ( cant really see with the new location where the bracket is fixed )
anyway think a small strip off that velcro stuff fixed onto both the mount and camera itself will make the better long term solution.
The date / time problem has now been fixed, dont know why but tried it a few times with the info given on here but it refused to change and the TAG.txt file still remained instead off automatically deleting itself, anyway it eventually changed and appears to be keeping the correct time now.
no more videos to share guys ??
have now mounted mine as per the suggestion / pics a few pages back ( thanks for the tips / idea !! ) the only thing I notice is that for some reason the little camera is now refusing to lock into posistion within the mount, can only think that the little tabs on the corners have come off ( cant really see with the new location where the bracket is fixed )
anyway think a small strip off that velcro stuff fixed onto both the mount and camera itself will make the better long term solution.
The date / time problem has now been fixed, dont know why but tried it a few times with the info given on here but it refused to change and the TAG.txt file still remained instead off automatically deleting itself, anyway it eventually changed and appears to be keeping the correct time now.
no more videos to share guys ??
11 March 2010, 04:19 PM
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Just a thought but have your tried viewing the recordings via another pc just to see if it is possibly a fault with the media player software itself ??
you buy it via a uk seller ?? if not what would postage to HK / china be ?? possibly just better spending another £12 on another one if its not a uk seller !!!
from experience its more than likely a uk based seller as vary rarely do HK / chinese sellers ask for you to sendanything back, again from personaly experience they seem to be a very trusting lot these guys !!!
but again would try a different pc / alternative media player just incase its something wrong with this as opposed to the actual cam.
let us know how you get on- good luck !!
you buy it via a uk seller ?? if not what would postage to HK / china be ?? possibly just better spending another £12 on another one if its not a uk seller !!!
from experience its more than likely a uk based seller as vary rarely do HK / chinese sellers ask for you to sendanything back, again from personaly experience they seem to be a very trusting lot these guys !!!
but again would try a different pc / alternative media player just incase its something wrong with this as opposed to the actual cam.
let us know how you get on- good luck !!
