Hello everyone,
I have 3 questions I’m hoping to get help with, apologies if these are obvious or otherwise explained, I did look through some of the posts:
Q1. I’m struggling with the number of files each ride seems to generate. If I start the bike and ride for an hour, I was expecting 2 video files, one for the front and one for the rear, but I seem to get many many more.
Is there a setting to have fewer files (ideally a single one for each camera for the ride duration - usually less than an hour).
Q2. I have a 512GB SD card, is there a setting to automatically overwrite files once the card gets full? If so, where is it? I ask this as when I used a previous SD card, it seemed not to overwrite older files and I’d have to go into the app and format.
Q3. What is loop recording? There are options from 1-10mins, what do these do?
Thanks everyone for the help!
Hello, Sir
A1: most of the videos will be saved in continuous video file. Some videos may be saved in the accident video file. If you want to save some videos in another file, you can press the button twice and the video will be saved in protected video file.
A2: The videos will be overwritten once the card is full.
A3: You can decide the size of your video, by choosing the video minutes from 1-10 minutes.
Thanks.
Hi there,
Regarding Q3:
Loop recording is exactly what you are looking for in Q1 and Q3. Loop recording means that the K5 will overwrite the oldest files if the card gets full. Using the options you can set how long each video file will be. So if you enable loop recording and set it to 10 min, the K5 will generate six files per hour for each cam and will start overwriting them if the card is full.
If you disable loop recording, the length of each video will be 15 min. But if the card gets full, the K5 will stop recording.
Default is loop recording enabled and video length set to 1 min. That's why you get so many files per hour.
Regarding Q1:
There is no option to set the video length to 1 hour or so for several reasons
One reason is the "protect video" feature, which automatically (G-Sensor enabled) or manually (button on remote controll pressed) moves the current video into the accident folder to prevent it gets overwritten. With shorter videos, only the incident video is protected and not the whole trip.
Another reason is that an one hour video will be way too large for the FAT32 file system.
Regarding Q2:
Maybe you had the G-Sensor enabled and its sensitivity was set too high. In that case the K5 detects a lot of crashes (false positive) and moves almost all files to a protected folder, where they do not get overwritten for obvious reasons. In that case the files have to be deleted manually.