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tim... · October 24th 19, 09:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london

"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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On 24/10/2019 09:18, tim... wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 20:37:27 on Wed, 23 Oct
2019, Recliner remarked:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 19:05:11 on Wed, 23 Oct
2019, remarked:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:34:49 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:41:34 on Wed, 23 Oct
2019, remarked:

I wonder if dashcams storing low/uncompressed video is so it can
accurately
capture very fast movement - eg just before an accident - which
most video
compression systems are not particularly good at.

I think it's because they don't want to have the
silicon|dollars|power
budget of compressing the video. They externalise it to users having
to
buy stupidly big SD cards.

My previous dashcam gobbled through 1.2GB for each ten minute file.

There must be more to it than that. Even cheap smartphones can do
realtime
video compression.

They produce files in MP4 format, but not very much compressed. My
phone
produces typically 150MB per minute (1920 x 1080 pixels).

So, Full HD video.

Like my dashcam (I presume the camera is essentially the same as that in
a phone).

The hardware is probably commodity by now.

My whole dashcam only cost about £30.

That doesn't leave much budget for the lens.

The lens is quite large (1.5cm), and wide angle (170 degrees). And yes,
it's probably one of the more expensive components.

I don't see why

non focusing, non zoom-able lenses cost pennies to make

The rest of the components probably cost fractions of a penny to make :-)

like all ICs

but they tend to cost dollars to buy

Not worked on this product class, not sure if this will be single chip
solution or not?

I have an unused one sitting on my shelf that I can't "give away" [1],
perhaps I'll break it down

tim

[1] to someone deserved of being give it