Recent content by melw

Hi! Last time I looked into adjusting WB it wasn't straight forward to get the controls working with Type D units in similar way as in A/B/C patched firmwares. But yes, it's a fixed preset WB - so not auto-WB as with the factory firmware. The WB gains are overwritable in 0x80F9075C / 60 / 64...

No further plans on modifying anything, unless new issues are covered. If it works, great! If there's issues, please report - and I'll have a look when I can. Also planning to do a bigger recording session when I have time.

Another update on the Type D: Two things I've wanted for a while now work, so I'm calling this a release candidate (not final — needs more testing). Flicker-free OSD while recording The HUD used to flicker badly during capture. It turned out to be simply a buffer problem: The O1 OSD pool —...

Welcome, and thanks for the kind words! Interesting serial — it's not on the known list yet. The last two digits look like the year, and that roughly tracks the type era: A = 2021-22, B = 2023-24, C = 2024-25, D = 2025. Yours is …26… → 2026, i.e. newer than every catalogued unit so far. Best...

A couple of findings worth sharing. 1. "Recordings get cut short" — use FAT32 only Same 128GB card: as exFAT it truncated the clip at higher bitrate; reformatted the same card to FAT32 and it recorded a full reel. The firmware's exFAT write path is too slow to keep up, so the buffer fills and...

Thanks so much for the detailed testing @Hook Line and Tinker. It's almost certainly the card, not the menu/playback timing. Both truncations were on the 128GB card. A 128GB card is formatted exFAT by default, and this firmware seems to write to exFAT / large cards a lot slower. During capture...

Another version to try - this one has ~2× (~15 Mbps) bitrate. I captured a short 2 minute film without issues. Maybe also works better with big/slower SD cards?

Thanks for trying the firmware version reporting this @Hook Line and Tinker - I'll try to few longer recordings tonight to see what happens. Few theories: Buffer overrun due to higher bitrate or file system not being able to keep up with the increased writes. If it's about this, VBR and/or...

For anyone with a Type D Reels who wants to try what I've been tinkering with, here's a flashable build. It's built on top of videodoctor's D firmware (1600×1200 / ~18 fps base). What it does Better image quality — recording bitrate bumped ~4× (~31 Mbps), less blocky. On-screen HUD...

Type D Progress update: Got the font rendering working and that has been already helpful in many ways! 4. Font rendering I pulled 0dan0's 8×12 bitmap font and now I'm able to render text on the O1 OSD layer — texts are stable in preview, flickery in capture. Now exposed on the lower right...

Hello all! New to the forum and tinkering. I recently purchased a Kodak Reels (type D) device, started capturing and was immediately disappointed by the quality of the video - very grainy, ton of compression artifacts, low bitrate. Then I found this forum and thread, read through all the posts...