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Viewing Recorded Images/Videos
Connecting to a PC Directly
Set the power switch to ON.
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Press the SETUP button.
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Connect the OutbackCam via the USB cable to a free USB 2.0 (or higher) port
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on your computer.
The computer will detect the
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OutbackCam
as a USB Mass Storage Device, and
give it a drive letter (such E:\, F:\ and so on).
To access your images/videos, navigate to this drive using your file explorer.
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Alternately, choose “Open to View Files” (or similar) from the
AutoPlay
window
(if one appears - not all systems are configured to do this).
The recordings are stored in a folder called DCIM. They are arranged in
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chronological order based on the date and time recorded.
To open files, simply click on them in the same way you open other files on
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your computer.
Transferring data via the SD Card
Alternately, you can just take the SD card out of the
OutbackCam
and pop it into
an SD card reader on your computer. Many computers these days (particularly
notebooks) come with SD card readers built in. If you don’t have a built in card
reader, you can purchase a stand alone card reader which connects via USB, or use
a USB to SD adaptor - both of these are quite inexpensive.
Once the SD card has been detected by the computer, it will appear as a Mass
Storage Device, and can be accessed in the same way as if you connected the
Digtal Eye directly to the PC, as detailed above.
Playing AVI Files
It may be the case that your computer has difficulty playing back the AVI files
created by the
OutbackCam
. If this is the case, we suggest trying VLC Media Player,
a great little program which is available free from
www.videolan.org/vlc
. There
are versions available for almost every operating system available, and it’s a good
choice for playing back the AVI files that the
OutbackCam
creates.
There should be no such problem with the still images (JPG files). This file format
has been around a long time (actually about twenty years, which in the computing
world is practically forever) and the vast majority of devices have no problem
displaying them. If you’re having problems viewing the files on a PC, then this is
more likely to be the result of a faulty SD card than the file being incompatible
with your system.
