Electronics » New Innovv K2 fitted

Phil of MotoMate came out today and fitted the camera to the bike, excellent job and the app is very easy to use on the phone, great functionality and great picture quality.

Phil did a great job, as stated elsewhere I am not connected with Moto Mate or any dodgy relationship with Phil.

I will hopefully be trying it out after the 30 June!!!!!!

Thanks mate

Graham

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For the last week or so, I’ve had issues with quality and performance. In simplest terms, the video looks like ass...tons of artifacts. Fortunately, the Innovv forum has a guardian angel. He asked me to upload raw footage, and after viewing it concluded it was the norm for the K2.

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The problem with the K2 is, that is has an exaggerated sharpness, combined with a relatively low bitrate (12MBit). This is ok when riding in a city, where aren't much details, as it allows to record the number plates. But as soon as there are more details (trees with branches, leafs, etc.), the 12MBit are not enough. Additionally, because of the exaggerated sharpness, there are much more details in the situation than necessary and the codec simply strikes sail => much compression artifacts.

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He modified the DVR firmware to improve performance, and I hope, in time, a future firmware update from Innovv will incorporate his modifications.

The modified firmware I've installed runs 1080p to 28MBit and at 720p to 22MBit on the front camera. Rear camera remains unchanged. Video from the front (1 minute) runs around 212 MB and the rear runs 90 MB. Toying with the video production suite, if I take a 1080 video and render to 720, the quality is impressive.

I'm glad this guy did the modification...otherwise I'd be very unhappy with the system's performance.

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FYI. Check the Innovv forum for firmware updates. I was very disappointed with performance as I live in a rural area and lots of trees. The above quote details my situation. An enthusiast tweaked the firmware, and it vastly improves the quality of the video in situations prone to overtax the OEM firmware encoding rate.

Hi Zer0netgain,

Many thanks for this, interesting stuff.

I am not sure how long ago this mod was done, there wasa new firmware update last week which I installed on Grahams DVR so will be keen to review the footage once he's tried it out. Certainaly lots of trees and scenery around his way.

The firmware I’m running is not from Innovv. The guy usually tweaks released firmware, so I don’t know if the latest release has been tinkered with or if the new version incorporates his improvements. I’m at a point where if it isn’t broke, I don’t look to fix it.