All those with carputer...

[Jitsukablue]

One day I'll get around to fitting one of these, but I was thinking, what better way is there to document a trip than to install a little camera to take snaps of your trip to the hard drive. Also be useful just driving around the burbs as evidence. Like a rear camera, just installed on the rear view mirror or on the front somewhere.

Just a thought.

[Coled]

Hey Jitsukablue,
Thought the same thing as you once i've got my gear installed. I thought it might help the misses getting a sore eye from hitting herself in the eye with the video camera while on rough tracks.

[Iron_eagle70]

Had been thinking of that also. I would think a decent webcam would do the trick facing out the front. Then their software could run in the background or whatever. Take single pictures or video. Or if you really wanted to get flash I guess you could mount a good HiDef video camera on a mount and stream the video to the HD of the CarPC.

Just my thoughts.

[Jitsukablue]

Mate, you'd need an array of hard drives to capture HD. I've got a HD handcam that records onto tape. You're looking at 2 GB an hour fully compressed, or 160 megabytes per second (not bits per second, bytes) (500 GB an hour) uncompressed. I have to capture from the tape it in SD-DVD quality, do all the editing on the SD-DVD quality then save in SD or HD compressed. Standard PCs lack the capability to edit native HD.