- Aug 3, 2017
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I have a strange matter with my YC-HD785R-20X when I record to my micro SD-card.
1* I de-activated the motion detection, so nothing could be saved while doing step 2.
2* then formatted the 16GB SD-card using the cam's format ability under 'Storage Management'.
3. Changed my Main-Stream video resolution to 1280x720.
4* actived my motion detection again, so it could start recording again on an empty SD-card with a lower screen resolution. So, using less space on my sd card.
After making only 1 movie (h.264) for 1 minute and 8 seconds and with a file size of 14.37MB, my remaining free space on my SD card goes down from 14.82GB to 14.69GB ???
Now when we only take 1GB=1000MB (and not 1024) that should give us a start capacity of 14820MB and now a remaining free capacity of 14690MB or 130MB less.
Where did my (130-14.37) 115,63MB went to?
Is the partition size used when formatting the SD in the cam not too big?
Which partition is being used here?
1* I de-activated the motion detection, so nothing could be saved while doing step 2.
2* then formatted the 16GB SD-card using the cam's format ability under 'Storage Management'.
3. Changed my Main-Stream video resolution to 1280x720.
4* actived my motion detection again, so it could start recording again on an empty SD-card with a lower screen resolution. So, using less space on my sd card.
After making only 1 movie (h.264) for 1 minute and 8 seconds and with a file size of 14.37MB, my remaining free space on my SD card goes down from 14.82GB to 14.69GB ???
Now when we only take 1GB=1000MB (and not 1024) that should give us a start capacity of 14820MB and now a remaining free capacity of 14690MB or 130MB less.
Where did my (130-14.37) 115,63MB went to?
Is the partition size used when formatting the SD in the cam not too big?
Which partition is being used here?
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alastairstevenson
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Depending on how the space is reported that could be the space assigned to the file system or the 'administrator reserve'.
If you created another video and the next decrement in space matched the video size, that would be a confirmation.
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I have now 12 movies with a total of 226,83MB.
When checking my 'Storage Management', it says that I used 1690MB.
???
Contacted Jack on this and he tells me to use a genuine micro sd card.
Thing is that I use a Samsung micro sd card, so how more genuine can a micro sd card be?
When checking my 'Storage Management', it says that I used 1690MB.
???
Contacted Jack on this and he tells me to use a genuine micro sd card.
Thing is that I use a Samsung micro sd card, so how more genuine can a micro sd card be?
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I just changed my micro SD card. The new card is an SANDISK Ultra 32GB. Card was formatted by me in the laptop FAT 32 (Standard). And again formatted in the camera because the cam stated 'unformatted'.
I then recorded 1 movie with video resolution 1280x720. File size : 20,15MB.
From 28,95GB available, I went to 28,83GB or 120MB less.
So, 100MB got lost somewhere....?
YUNCH, it's time that you fix this issue and bring out a updated firmware imo
I then recorded 1 movie with video resolution 1280x720. File size : 20,15MB.
From 28,95GB available, I went to 28,83GB or 120MB less.
So, 100MB got lost somewhere....?
YUNCH, it's time that you fix this issue and bring out a updated firmware imo
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What happens if you put the micro sd back into the laptop after some video is recorded to it? Is the full capacity still there or does it show the 100mb missing? If it's missing, do you see any files that may be taking up that space?
I know in the past I tried transferring files from a different brand DVR to a USB Flash drive and the size wasn't adding up right. Once plugging into the computer, I noticed that the DVR was automatically putting an installation file for a video player software on the USB drive that I could use for playing back the video files on a computer...It's possible the camera could be putting some type of software or other files onto your SD cards, so that would be worth checking.
What Jack is referring to is there are a lot of counterfeit SD cards on the market (some even with popular brand name logos printed on the cards) that are actually smaller capacity cards that are hacked to display more space than they actually have. For example, it may only be an 8GB card, but is sold as, say, a 64GB card and hacked to display 64GB on a computer when formatted. He's probably assuming this happened to you and your computer is displaying more space than the card actually has....But if we're only talking 100mb, this is likely not the case, as it wouldn't be worth the trouble of hacking a card just to make it display 100mb more. I think your case involves either formatting or extra files being dumped onto the card from the camera's internal memory.
I know in the past I tried transferring files from a different brand DVR to a USB Flash drive and the size wasn't adding up right. Once plugging into the computer, I noticed that the DVR was automatically putting an installation file for a video player software on the USB drive that I could use for playing back the video files on a computer...It's possible the camera could be putting some type of software or other files onto your SD cards, so that would be worth checking.
What Jack is referring to is there are a lot of counterfeit SD cards on the market (some even with popular brand name logos printed on the cards) that are actually smaller capacity cards that are hacked to display more space than they actually have. For example, it may only be an 8GB card, but is sold as, say, a 64GB card and hacked to display 64GB on a computer when formatted. He's probably assuming this happened to you and your computer is displaying more space than the card actually has....But if we're only talking 100mb, this is likely not the case, as it wouldn't be worth the trouble of hacking a card just to make it display 100mb more. I think your case involves either formatting or extra files being dumped onto the card from the camera's internal memory.
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Yes, about those possible counterfeit micro sd cards...I had this problem buying a cheap Chinese USB stick once. This Samsung card was also bought on Aliexpress but with a 5 star ranking seller and it wasn't cheap also.
That why I -for more certainty- installed a new 32GB SANDISK Ultra, bought here in Belgium. In a big, well known shopping chain.
I also lowered my sensibility in my motion detection screen to 40%. Seeems that with the new firmware the camera detected often nothing and records it. Before with the old firmware I could leave it at 70-80%. Now , it seems much more sensitive.
i never checked a recorded sd card on my laptop.
That why I -for more certainty- installed a new 32GB SANDISK Ultra, bought here in Belgium. In a big, well known shopping chain.
I also lowered my sensibility in my motion detection screen to 40%. Seeems that with the new firmware the camera detected often nothing and records it. Before with the old firmware I could leave it at 70-80%. Now , it seems much more sensitive.
i never checked a recorded sd card on my laptop.