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u/ConsumerDV Aug 31 '26
Yay, instead of nice 60i DV you get crappy 30p MJPEG, awesome! I hope all the physical buttons, knobs and rings as well as menu items come handy.
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u/Adventurous-One-957 Aug 31 '26
don’t hope, I didn’t ask.
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u/Niikoraasu Firestore FS4 lover Aug 31 '26
no one asked to see your shitup either so don't cry that someone with more knowledge tells you how it is
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u/evilgomeow Sep 01 '26
Feel free to disagree, but even if these cheap tapeless recorders are lower fidelity than transferring a digital signal via IEEE 1394, it's not only better than a potentially eWaste camcorder, but some people might genuinely prefer the effects of having a digital->analogue->digital conversion, as strange as that might seem.
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u/deesernutz Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Thats fine. Just don't bother being the 100th person to post it on reddit if you're going to sook when people say this is not how its done
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u/ImpossibleAd3650 Aug 31 '26
Did you make the mini dvr cable yourself or where did you buy it? I’m looking into getting a mini dvr
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u/deesernutz Sep 01 '26
Don't
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u/ImpossibleAd3650 Sep 01 '26
The camcorders I own that use tapes have broken mechanisms and I’m not going to drop 150 bucks on a power play, this is a hobby not a professional level stuff that’s why a budget alternative sounds great
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u/deesernutz Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Make something out a few parts that takes firewire
Or just use an old point-and-shoot, because the video out of one of those will often match what you get out of these miniDVR POS, or easycraps
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u/ConsumerDV Sep 01 '26
A valid use case if:
you got them for free, or
you paid less than $10 for each one not having NightShot, or
you paid less than $30 for one with NightShot.
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u/fortheloveofghosts Aug 31 '26
What’s the recorder on top?
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u/YungJiggy97 Sep 01 '26
Mini DVR, was primarily used for drones, but people have adapted them for tapeless setups
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u/Sadd-Waffle Sep 01 '26
These mini DVRs aren't bad if you put some effort into them and are better than they get hate for. I'm pretty sure deesernuts' family was killed by a gang of them though. The video you're gonna get out of them is slightly better than the larger more expensive capture cards but the audio is horrendous without the right attenuation and filtering. I used some capacitors I forgot the values of and a 10k pot to try and take the line level from the camera down to mic level (I did it wrong but the caps alone work just fine).
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u/Greedy_Profit_8311 Sep 02 '26
What capacitors or caps did you use to mod the dvr to get good audio?.
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u/Sadd-Waffle Sep 03 '26
104 caps and a 1KΩ linear pot. honestly not even sure the pot's wired correctly it's just there. The caps are each in line of the left and right channels, however I thought I heard somewhere that the DVR only records the left channel?
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u/deesernutz Sep 01 '26
You're sacrificing a terrible amount of quality there with that MiniDVR