Roadhawk ride not working

[owl10]

Hi All.

Just before xmas I bought myself a roadhawk ride bullet cam.

Last month I took it out of the box and turned it on.

Ive managed to record 4 x 5min video segments, I think.

Unfortunately I get a message saying windows media player cannot play them.


Anyone have the same issue and know how to fix?


My laptop is quite old, Im hoping this isnt an issue, but Im guessing I shoupld be able to play them?

Next step is to download the third party sd formatter they recommend and try to format the card

Followed by new class 10 micro sd card

followed by chuck camera in the back of the cupboard never to be seem again.

TBH - Im pretty disappointed - expected better (plug and play) for the price.
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DanceLikeAMonkey says: "An infinte amount of web pages available
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[Ste]

Try playing the videos with https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html instead of windows media player.

[CaNsA]

https://i.imgur.com/I9eFJnW.jpg

[-Matt-]

What format is the cam recording - right click the files and properties - should be vid.som - generic video name.something.

If your player/computers out of date it might be the issue rather than the camera.

[Amber Phoenix]

Yep, I've found VLC is the only thing that'll play the videos off the RoadHawk. Quicktime won't touch them.

Either way, VLC is good. Then grab yourself a copy of Handbrake, within which you can load up the vids and transcode them into something else that will play in WMP or Quicktime.

Still looking for a tool that'll just pull the video stream as is it and shove it in a new video container such that it will play in QT etc. Would be preferable to transcoding and reducing video quality slightly.

As for formatting, I've never bothered in the 6 months I've been using mine, not seen any adverse affects. I'm using a Transend 32Gb SD card, and sure, I can understand fragmentation of the SD card could cause some issues, but I've not noticed any. Just let the thing keep overwriting itself as it runs out of space.
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[doggone]

I got one of these last year, as above VLC will play them, if you want to do any editing you need to run the clips through Handbrake encoder https://handbrake.fr/

It's really quite odd because Moviemaker appears to load them but you get strange blockiness at the final stage after spending half an hour fiddling with it - if you don't convert it first.

This camera is over-rated IMO, with rather poor quality output, but it is very small and light and can be mounted discreetly.
If it was £70 it would be OK, but it's about £130

[owl10]

Hi, thanks for help-


Computer is a HP Pavilion dv6 with some kind of AMD chip, thats all I know...


File type says its a "quick time movie"

Re formatted card, no improvements so far

VLC doesnt seem to work either -

If i try to open VLC then open a file then when I click on 'removable disk' i can navigate to DCIM but then its all 'ghosted' and wont let me click anything (is there a geek term for this?!)

If I try to right click the file through windows explorer in an attempt to push open with VLC then windows explorer goes all ghosted too

All i get form VLC is black window with a traffic cone in the middle


Cansa - yea ok, you are right, but its kind of bike related, isnt it?! (I'd like to fit the camera to my bike!!!)
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DanceLikeAMonkey says: "An infinte amount of web pages available
Yet I still end up reading crap like that"

[Ste]

Copy them to your computer before trying to play them.

And try this to play them. https://www.apple.com/uk/quicktime/download/

[CaNsA]

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[gavbriggs]

Use this to find the codec you need.

https://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Download the required codec and your sorted. Job done. I would imagine roadhawk have a viewer for their files or will at least point you in the direction of one?

[owl10]

Cheers for help, will try tomorrow night, 5am start for work so I'm done now.

Cansa, surely if you were bolting the roll holder to the bike, but couldn't get the roll to spin around for a handful it'd be bike related?!!
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DanceLikeAMonkey says: "An infinte amount of web pages available
Yet I still end up reading crap like that"

[owl10]

Sorry to dig this up again, happy for a mod to move into the correct sub forum if needed.

Unfortunately, files cant be copied to the laptop - I get an icon show up in the folder in the laptop swiftly followed by an error message saying it cant move the files (or somesuch), then the icon disappears again.

Ordering a new SD card from ebay to see if that works next.

May also try to see if same issue occurs on my works laptop (Thankfully left at work tonight...!).

Not a good experience so far.
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DanceLikeAMonkey says: "An infinte amount of web pages available
Yet I still end up reading crap like that"