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MD80 Clone
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MD80 CloneHaya peeps!
Ive just ordered two MD80 clones from china off ebay for about £7 each... the vids on youtube seem pritty good! Has anyone on here got one, and what are they like? I cant wait to get mine (the other is for my bro) so I can use it for offroading and stuff, and because its so cheap I dont mind mounting it on the underside to get some cool angles, and if it gets buggered then oh well, just get another My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
Re: MD80 CloneApologies for my blatant ignorance, but.....WHAT'S AND MD80
Jim and Phoenix
Proud owner of an...erm...MG ZT CDTi 160
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its a small camcorder looks a bit like this
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Proud owner of an...erm...MG ZT CDTi 160
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I just bought that one Si. "12.10 inc p+p. Jim and Phoenix
Proud owner of an...erm...MG ZT CDTi 160
Re: MD80 CloneAiiii i've got one, pretty good little cameras. The setting of the date can be a bit hit and miss but the way I found to do it is to plug in the camera via usb create a txt document in the root directory and name it TAG, in this file enter the date in format
[date] 2011/02/19 21:06:00 and save it. Then do a test recording and it should be correct. It is displayed as MM/DD/YYYY on mine. The timestamp is the most annoying feature on these as officially there isn't a simple way to turn it off. I've found a couple of ways of getting rid of it though if your interested. Sometimes the video can be jerky which is normally down to a crappy micro sd card, mine was supplied with a class 4 but i've found at least a class 6 is best. Oh and bear in mind if you buy something like a 16gb card it's formatted to FAT so will only allow single recordings of 4gb so once it's finished you have to re-start it to make a new one. Funnily enough i'm taking mine out tomorrow when I go bashing with my RC car so will post up a video when done.
Re: MD80 CloneYes please do! My bro wants to put his on the front of his nitro truck, should be fun!
Ive read about hacking the firmware to remove the time stamp...but thats a little beyond me atm. or you can edit/crop it out....but to be honest, as long as its right, I dont mind. How long will 2gig last? do you think its worth getting somthing bigger, or will the battery die before you can fill it up? Last edited by Rich on Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: removed quote My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
Re: MD80 CloneNo worries, indeed flashing the firmare isn't for the faint hearted and you could end up nuking your cam. I have found a filter and it works quite well, I will post up a vid with and without tomorrow. Battery apparently lasts about 2 hours depending which one it has installed (it'll tell you in the instructions). You should get about 10 minutes per GB. I'll give you more info tomorrow as haven't done a full days testing with it yet. Mine came with a neck strap and rubber case along with a few mounts.
Re: MD80 CloneHi mate sorry couldn't do it yesterday I took the camera out and it died after about 10 seconds even though I had been charging it for an age. It seems like the battery had to be run completely flat before it would accept a charge.
As you can see in the first bit of the video the camera was all over the place either due to the mounting or the terrain i'm thinking more the mounting so will try a different way next time. Unfortunately it was very overcast but you get the general idea. Oh and having this camera and trying to do arty farty shots may cause you to damage things (you'll know what I mean when you watch the clip)
Re: MD80 CloneLOL....and it was going so well up until the last two seconds
Re: MD80 Clonelol it looks good! seems good quality to say it costs less than a tenna delivered . I hope you had fun out there!! looks like you did! lol
My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
Re: MD80 CloneYeah had a good 'bash' hopefully will get some better video when it brightens up a bit. Here's some video with the timestamp removed. On other tests It seems to work better on fast moving video.
Re: MD80 Clonewow...you really wouldnt notice that unless you know what to look for! how have you done that? just blured it out or somthing a little more clever?
My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
Re: MD80 Clone1, Download and extract latest version of virtualdub http://www.virtualdub.org/
2, Download filter http://www.aircommandrockets.com/timestamp.vdf 3, Copy timestamp.vdf to virtualdub \plugins directory 4, Run virtualdub and open a video file 5, From the Filters menu select "Timestamp Remover" 6, From the file menu select "Save as AVI" Job done
Re: MD80 Clonewow, as easy as that eh! Cant wait for it to arrive!
My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
Re: MD80 Clonelet us know how you get on when you get it. Also the battery on these can be bit of a weak point ie poor charging etc so i'm experimenting with external batteries.
Re: MD80 CloneI got mine the other day off ebay. I plugged my TomTom power lead into it to provide power.
Jim and Phoenix
Proud owner of an...erm...MG ZT CDTi 160
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Normally the instructions say what battery its got in it, Usb spec is 4.75 - 5.25V @ 100mA, most car usb adapters output around 5V. I'm working on an external battery setup as if you have a large micro sd card 8gb+ the battery will die before you've filled it, and by default the MD80 doesn't allow you to record while charging.
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Hello mate, what compression settings you use? Because the smallest I can get a short 11min clip to be is about 9gig....and uncompressed its about 21gig! the original file is about 1.4 gig. My 2.8 shorty - now sold, and comments here My old dti - now sold "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW --- What a Ride!" This vehicle runs on 100% recycled dinosaurs
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