Ive tested just recording with nothing in the USB port & recording looks super smooth with the timer counting up with no pauses. Now Ive tested the Likoboard & I can see its more sticky. I think its something to do with the USB?
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > During filming yesterday I discovered that the recording of video with the > GPS/KML function enabled with the Garmin 18 would stop at seemingly random > spots. > > recording without the GPS unit attached works great. Recording with the GPS > starts ok but you can visibly see that the frame rate displayed in the > camogmgui would be slow to update. Eventually the cameragui would grind to a > halt . I was unable to remove the GPS so rebooting & turning on the camera > control page before the meta data displayed that it had seen the GPS unit > seemed to help & I was able to record the last 1hr of the race with no > issues. Sometimes I had a Buffer overrun message pop up when restarting the > recording but then it would start after. > > It felt to me that the buffer memory on the camera was not getting cleared. > I was recording images for the kml at 1 every 10seconds. For the 1st part of > the race, I only turned on the recording for a few periods but could see > that it was a bit unreliable. I decided to drop from 90% quality down to 65% > (not really any good for my use of the footage) & I was later able to record > for some hours mid race. I returned to 90% for a bit hoping to get some high > quality film for the main part of the race but that soon locked up. I then > filmed at 80% & that seemed ok for a while but then I started to have > problems with recording stops. > > In the office Its hard to replicate this at 90% (not enough stuff in the > image to get the bit rate up) but going to 93% causes a lock up after > 50seconds. > > It would be really great to get the GPS data thing working as I really feel > we can use this extra data in many different ways. Does anyone have any > ideas for a solution other then just not using the USB port? > > grts Phil > > >
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