@p3dal It crashed. Hard. Hovering over a hundred feet and it spontainiously inverted and drove head first into the ground. Camera was recording at the time, but power was interrupted when it crashed so it's got a bad EOF marker, making it unreadable. How awesome would that be to watch?
@p3dal I'm actually very interested in recovering it! I have a similar video from my hexacopter, except it only fell about 20 feet. I'd love to recover both files! That would make for some interesting video. Thank you for the link!
Ok girls... I'm going to do two things this morning. First... I'm currently uploading the file to YouTube with the hope that YouTube may have some magic bullet they can treat the file with during the upload process. Hey... it could happen! ;-)
Then, if the YouTube pipe dream is unsuccessful, I'm going to upload the damaged file to... well, I guess I don't know where. Google Docs maybe with public access maybe? Then it's a free-for-all for anyone that would be willing to give the file a shot.
Okey doke... here is the link to the shared file. It's quite large. Just over 1GB, so don't try to download this one on your 56K modems!
I don't know if you must have a Google account to access the shared link. If you don't already have a Google account, don't create one just for this... let me know and I'll try something else.
@djslack I think you're asking me to upload a small, known good recording from that camera so your tool can patch the damaged one and the good one together?
@ruouttaurmind Pretty much. I think it takes some of the metadata from the file headers and whatnot and uses the known good parts to reconstruct the unterminated file. So I think even something just a couple of seconds long would work.
@djslack Crikey! That's one seriously inverted drone right there! You're awesome man! I surely hope it was recording all the way to the ground. That'll be one epic fail landing. THANK YOU!!!
Except for the sense of impending doom, that's actually a pretty nice pic. Hey @garyhgaryh, you were asking about the picture quality of that iLook+ camera... there ya go! LOL!
@djslack@ruouttaurmind I was able to view it on my phone with breaks due to buffering and I gotta say that the quality of the video with the iLook camera is first rate. In fact I think it's better than my gopro hero HD. It handles or meters light differences between the sky and landscape better than my camera. And of course I was watching how the g-3d works :) - looks good to me. The 350pro seems very responsive and there is almost no jello effect. It's odd how it looks like it lost power when you were panning. When I ran a heavy battery my p1 almost flipped when I rotated.
@djslack I just finished downloading. I can't thank you enough for your effort on this. Did you use VLC? I still have the last corrupted video from the Tali H500 crash and I'd like to try the same process you used to see if I can recover that one.
@djslack Of course I just had to FF to the last ten seconds. It's hard to tell from the spotty audio, but I'm pretty sure the motors were still running when the thing inverted. Too bad the video wasn't just 3 seconds longer. :-)
@ruouttaurmind i used the program i linked in the Recover Gopro Video thread. Downloaded 1.8.0.0 version from that message board's link, added 127.0.0.1 grauonline.de to my hosts file so the phone home would fail and let the older version run, added -save 100 to the custom recovery parameters, and let 'er rip. It worked surprisingly quickly, too.
@ruouttaurmind That's so sad with his little foot in the air all helpless. It's like when you re-watch a movie and part of you hopes it will end better this time.
And PS: Damn that G-3D gimbal did a phenominal job trying to keep the camera upright, innit! The quad was exactly 180* inverted but the horizon is not far from upright.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Great vid.
No crash video? Or did it fly away?
@p3dal It crashed. Hard. Hovering over a hundred feet and it spontainiously inverted and drove head first into the ground. Camera was recording at the time, but power was interrupted when it crashed so it's got a bad EOF marker, making it unreadable. How awesome would that be to watch?
@ruouttaurmind I bet there are recovery tools out there that could fix the bad EOF marker if you're inclined to try. Here's a relevant discussion:
@p3dal I'm actually very interested in recovering it! I have a similar video from my hexacopter, except it only fell about 20 feet. I'd love to recover both files! That would make for some interesting video. Thank you for the link!
@p3dal You can see the pics of the damage down towards the end of this thread. https://drone.horse/forum/topics/good-deal-on-350-size-quadcopter
@ruouttaurmind send me the file and I'll try recovering it - only if you want me to. Not that I can but would love to try.
@p3dal I made a thread with this info so that it can be searched for later. Thanks for the link!
Ok girls... I'm going to do two things this morning. First... I'm currently uploading the file to YouTube with the hope that YouTube may have some magic bullet they can treat the file with during the upload process. Hey... it could happen! ;-)
Then, if the YouTube pipe dream is unsuccessful, I'm going to upload the damaged file to... well, I guess I don't know where. Google Docs maybe with public access maybe? Then it's a free-for-all for anyone that would be willing to give the file a shot.
@ruouttaurmind let us know, i'll try it
@ruouttaurmind Me too.
OH MAN IM SO SORRY
It's a free for all! LOL!
Okey doke... here is the link to the shared file. It's quite large. Just over 1GB, so don't try to download this one on your 56K modems!
I don't know if you must have a Google account to access the shared link. If you don't already have a Google account, don't create one just for this... let me know and I'll try something else.
@ruouttaurmind Got a small good sample file, same camera settings, from that camera? That's one thing needed for this tool to work.
@djslack I think you're asking me to upload a small, known good recording from that camera so your tool can patch the damaged one and the good one together?
@ruouttaurmind Pretty much. I think it takes some of the metadata from the file headers and whatnot and uses the known good parts to reconstruct the unterminated file. So I think even something just a couple of seconds long would work.
@djslack K, I'm on it. I'll post a link when it's uploaded.
@djslack Here ya go. A couple seconds of good video from the same camera: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By0kOV9ABHKWc1k2V0cyLTBuSms/view?usp=sharing EDIT: Well, "good" as in it plays. I make no representation as to the entertainment value... ;-)
@ruouttaurmind Good news!
Let me get it uploaded for you. I didn't watch it except to see that it worked.
Looks like it might take about 2 hours to upload, I'll just leave it going, I'm up too late as it is.
@djslack Crikey! That's one seriously inverted drone right there! You're awesome man! I surely hope it was recording all the way to the ground. That'll be one epic fail landing. THANK YOU!!!
Except for the sense of impending doom, that's actually a pretty nice pic. Hey @garyhgaryh, you were asking about the picture quality of that iLook+ camera... there ya go! LOL!
@ruouttaurmind But now you can show how skilled you are. You flew a QR X350 inverted :P
@ruouttaurmind https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_PgNbiFnq0nSl9yN0dsZS1uYzA/view?usp=sharing
@ruouttaurmind gotta check it out today! I'll start downloading it when I get on my desktop. Glad @djslack fix it.
@djslack @ruouttaurmind I was able to view it on my phone with breaks due to buffering and I gotta say that the quality of the video with the iLook camera is first rate. In fact I think it's better than my gopro hero HD. It handles or meters light differences between the sky and landscape better than my camera. And of course I was watching how the g-3d works :) - looks good to me. The 350pro seems very responsive and there is almost no jello effect. It's odd how it looks like it lost power when you were panning. When I ran a heavy battery my p1 almost flipped when I rotated.
@djslack I just finished downloading. I can't thank you enough for your effort on this. Did you use VLC? I still have the last corrupted video from the Tali H500 crash and I'd like to try the same process you used to see if I can recover that one.
@djslack Of course I just had to FF to the last ten seconds. It's hard to tell from the spotty audio, but I'm pretty sure the motors were still running when the thing inverted. Too bad the video wasn't just 3 seconds longer. :-)
@ruouttaurmind i used the program i linked in the Recover Gopro Video thread. Downloaded 1.8.0.0 version from that message board's link, added 127.0.0.1 grauonline.de to my hosts file so the phone home would fail and let the older version run, added -save 100 to the custom recovery parameters, and let 'er rip. It worked surprisingly quickly, too.
@djslack Imma try that on the other file when I get home from work!
Here's the money shot for those that don't want to spend forever downloading the video. :-)
@ruouttaurmind That's so sad with his little foot in the air all helpless. It's like when you re-watch a movie and part of you hopes it will end better this time.
@crapstick I'm pretty sure it recovered in it's final moments, flipped upright, and then glided back down to safety.........
@crapstick The part that really cracks me up is the camera cable flapping helplessly in the breeze. :-)
@sportykev Why yes, yes it did. America loves a movie with a happy ending. ;-)
And PS: Damn that G-3D gimbal did a phenominal job trying to keep the camera upright, innit! The quad was exactly 180* inverted but the horizon is not far from upright.
@ruouttaurmind I was thinking the same thing. The gimbal went out like a champ. Like the band on Titanic.