Nextbase dash cam help/question (1 Viewer)

[Tezza]

Hi All

I decided I wanted to record some of my trips around the Scottish highlands to show the kids how narrow some of the roads are up there, so wife bought me a 312GW for Xmas and on my first trip, in my haste to use it I stupidly left the protective film over the lens.

Using a 32gb card, it plays back OK on the dash cam but very jerky, stop starty on laptop windows 8.1 which is so annoying as it is my short journey from Glenmore up to the ski center on New Year's day in the snow.

I have a 8gb card which I used the following day after removing the lens film and that works perfectly, so, does anyone know if it's the film causing the playback issue or is there something else I should be doing?

 

[Jaws]

Hi All

I decided I wanted to record some of my trips around the Scottish highlands to show the kids how narrow some of the roads are up there, so wife bought me a 312GW for Xmas and on my first trip, in my haste to use it I stupidly left the protective film over the lens.

Using a 32gb card, it plays back OK on the dash cam but very jerky, stop starty on laptop windows 8.1 which is so annoying as it is my short journey from Glenmore up to the ski center on New Year's day in the snow.

I have a 8gb card which I used the following day after removing the lens film and that works perfectly, so, does anyone know if it's the film causing the playback issue or is there something else I should be doing?

It may be the 32g card is not a class ten.
If it is a cheapy one it will not have the speed to use in your dvr

 

[WhiteCheyenneMan]

Sounds like your 8gb card is an Ultra or Extreme (top quality) and the 32gb is not? I had a 32gb Sandisk in my Nextbase and had problems. Nextbase told me that I needed to use an Sandisk Ultra in order to save data fast enough and this has cured the problem.

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[Spanner]

This is the recommended one, class 10 and just £9.49 from our local Tesco

 

[34127]

This is the advice in the manual for jumpy feedback

Remove the SD card and reformat to remove non-contiguous files.
For best recording use a branded class 10 type (30MB/s) or UHS
type 1 micro SD card of 8 to 32GB recommended size.
PC may not be sufficient for the playback task, try a different PC.
Copy the recorded video files onto the PC / Mac for playback
directly rather than use the iN-CAR CAM as a card reader, as the
USB system on your PC may be too slow for HD video playback.

 

[34127]

Be wary of where you buy your sd cards. They may say class type 10 on the card there are a lot of poor quality fakes around.

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[Jaws]

Be wary of where you buy your sd cards. They may say class type 10 on the card there are a lot of poor quality fakes around.

You are right there..
Over the holiday period a neighbour asked me to look at a dvr for them..
Similar issues .. Soon discovered the 'Scandisk' type 10 had been bought from eBay.. Run a check on it and not only was it not 32g the crafty buggers had put a compression app on it so everything loaded on the card was zipped up !!
Utterly useless for anything bar stills
Oh, and it was NOT a scandisk ( but no surprise there ! )

 

[JFD]

If you haven't already wiped it, you could copy the files from the card to the computer hard disk, and watch them from there. That would do two things: 1) It would confirm that it's the card transfer speed that's causing the viewing issue, and 2) You could still show folks the stunning beauty of the Highlands!!

 

[Tezza]

many thanks for the quick replies, Halfords recommended the card (scandisk make) when wife bought the cam, it's brand new and unused so would expect it to be up to the job but as you say not always the case, will check it out tonight and see if I can rescue the footage by using a different card reader maybe.

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