Don't know which camera is this.

[virtualpank86]

Hello guys! I just bought an action camera, I did it on small street shop in Tenerife. I don't know which firmware it using. Is there any chance to make video quality better? Thanks for any help.

[nutsey]

Hi,

It looks like a low-end iCatch or Generalplus... Could you show us UI screens of video shooting mode and settings menu?

[virtualpank86]

[nutsey]

Seems to be iCatch Sunplus SPCA1628 chip and it usually comes wth a VGA sensor.

[petesimon]

virtualpank86 the resolution setting can be "4K" but what is the real resolution in the MP4 (or MOV) video file?

[virtualpank86]

so that's means I can't get better quality?

[nutsey]

Unfortunately.

[RawbK]

Same problem here with one of my cams, was sold as 4K H9 but only records in 1080p and only IN . AVI

Now I want to know which cam it is so I can update the firmware to a good working one.
Here are some pictures :

[petesimon]

on AVI file? oh darn. It's not any kind of Eken, or clone. Maybe an Allwinner V3 camera that records in 2.7k30fps in mp4 files from Gearbest would be better.

[RawbK]

[petesimon]

looks like the menu screen of an old Novatek NT96660 SJ8000 / Extral SJ9000 camera. or maybe like a "F69" camera.
would you please post video samples from your camera here.
upload to google drive or dropbox is preferred.

[RawbK]

Pete, My sample video :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojfmjh5agv...I0009.avi?dl=0 Shot in 4K

[petesimon]

Mediainfo shows this technical detail. The 1080p looks fake, but more like 854x480 at best. Too bad the video codec is MJPEG

General
Complete name                  : MOVI0009.avi
Format                         : AVI
Format/Info                    : Audio Video Interleave
File size                      : 26.7 MiB
Duration                       : 7 s 333 ms
Overall bit rate               : 30.5 Mb/s
Director                       : Generplus
Original source form/Distribut : Generplus
Recorded date                  : 2010-06-29
Copyright                      : Generplus

Video
ID                             : 0
Format                         : JPEG
Codec ID                       : MJPG
Duration                       : 7 s 333 ms
Bit rate                       : 30.6 Mb/s
Width                          : 1 920 pixels
Height                         : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 16:9
Frame rate                     : 30.000 FPS
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling             : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Compression mode               : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.492
Stream size                    : 26.7 MiB

Audio
ID                             : 1
Format                         : PCM
Format settings, Endianness    : Little
Format settings, Sign          : Signed
Codec ID                       : 1
Duration                       : 7 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                       : 512 kb/s
Channel(s)                     : 1 channel
Sampling rate                  : 32.0 kHz
Bit depth                      : 16 bits
Stream size                    : 438 KiB (2%)
Alignment                      : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration           : 1048  ms (31.43 video frames)

[RawbK]

Thanks for the details. Very bad Ebay seller who sold me this 4k camera , as bad as the cam itself. So I think a firmware update will not do the trick getting better quality ?

[petesimon]

I dont know now where firmware is for this. But sometime I will search...