Helmet Cam

[swatt13]

got my stuff today
the archos 604 and the gen 4 helmet camera. both are nice. one thing ive found is that unfortunatly the camera doesnt have an inline start stop switch... which kinda blows, but the start stop is located on the player itself. i was hopeing to throw this in my radio pouch on my back, but then i wont be able to start/stop the recording, so im going to have to carry thin in my map pouch on my chest. its doable, just kinda not what i was expecting. ill film a game asap and post the link so everyone can view it soon.

[Krookedatmosphere]

looking forward to seeing how it works out

[Cortex]

Looking forward to seeing how it works Were is the camera mounted, center, left, right, top?

Originally Posted by swatt13

unfortunatly the camera doesnt have an inline start stop switch...

its this one?


It looks like it has an inline start/stop and thats the 04 model on the website. I was thinking about picking it up myself.

I posted it a day or so ago, but shoppers drug mart has the 04 series DVR station for $67. BB and futurreshop have it for $99.

I love the DVR station. Direct in and out to my TV. DVD quality recording off my digital cable. Charges alot faster also.

can those with Archos guncam/helmetcam setups post pics of their setups.

Also, there have been some recent 04 firmware updates recently.
I suggest Archos users register on http://forum.archosfans.com/index.php there are some extremely knowledgeable Archos users there.

[swatt13]

ya thats the one droc. it actually does have on/off start/stop button, but it doesnt actually STOP recording. the player still records, but the camera is of so its not recording anything. i havent messed with it yet and cant tell you if the player destinguishes the difference. apparently its suppose to so says the manuel, but ill let you know shortly.

Id definatly reccomend the set up tho, its nice, and so far makes goood movies.

from Archosfan forums

Silver_Bullet_Rollercoaster.AVI

Boomerang_Rollercoaster.avi

[swatt13]

videos are kinda grainy, but then again hes gotta be doing like 60mph lol. i hope the video is a little better out in the field. ive only taken video in /around the house and its very good. i suppose another reason those videos are grainy is the compacting/degredation from uploading hey? if i was to burn vids to disk rather than uploading theyll be good quality right?

Originally Posted by dman

Just an FYI. Only difference between the Archos 604's and the 500's is that the 500's has a built in audio recorder (ie: mic). Otherwise, they're the same thing. I'd say, go with whatever is cheaper. The 604 does apparently have easier to use buttons also.

the 04's have built in audio recorder aswell.

[swatt13]

used it snowboarding this weekend. works awesome. my vids werent choppy/ grainy at all. i was very impressed with the quality. only piss off is the camera functions (buttons ect)

the 604 has a mic built in too, and the camera attatchment has a mic. from what ive gathered, the 404 has a picture camera?? built in, but a definatly smaller screen. id say the 604 is better, but 404 IS cheaper.

i havent been able to upload the vids yet, photobucket limits the duration to 5mins. als, some of my vids i made, when i imported them, they say "copywritten, can only be played on origional device" so have to sort that out.

any reccommendations on either would be nice.

the 404cc has the video camera built in...but its more then the standard 404.

should also point out, that anyone with a 504 can get double capacity batteries on ebay.
The 604 has a 1500mah battery i think, the 504 has a 2500mah, and the new double capacity batteries found on ebay are 5000mah...for those of you who find they dont get enough life outta their archos.

Archos wasn't joshing around with this whole WiFi bit, and while that 604 WiFi of theirs might've gotten dinged a bit in the reviews, it seems that they're back for more with this new 704 WiFi that the FCC so kindly has revealed to us. Very little is known about the functionality so far, but that whole "Mobile DVR" tag on the name could imply that Archos is packing a bit more TV-centric functionality into the device -- rumors have mentioned the possibility of a built-in TV tuner -- or perhaps just trying to position the same old, same old a tad bit better in the market. From what we can tell from the pic, we would say the screen is a decent bit larger than the 604's 4.3-inches, possibly even the 7-inches that rumors suggest, and from what specs we have, we know there's a CPU (duh), flash memory (most likely for buffering), a hard drive (double duh), 802.11b/g WiFi and DDR2 RAM inside this thing. Hopefully whatever is under the hood will be enough to pep up that GUI for more productive WiFi-based web browsing. Perhaps the best news in all this is that the FCC is totally breaking Archos' confidentially request on this one, which should be in effect for another 15 days or so, meaning Apple's hopes of keeping iPhone docs under wraps until June 15th just got that much slimmer. Peep another shot after the break.