Take a ride with me...

[eTiMaGo]

Highlights of my late night commute back from the city... I did go a bit faster than usual for the purposes of this video, but I do always enjoy screeching around onramps if they are clear of traffic :biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jSc_oiwTew

[josevenezolano]

Very nice video Thomas. You have pretty good street there. I hope I can go that fast. Here, in Venezuela I have to be looking at the street trying to avoid hole, our street sucks!!! Hole everywhere. Can I get all those hole in my GPS? LOL.

[SIPNGAS]

So, is there a speed limit or are you ignoring it the way you're flying by everyone else? lol

That was neat. I didn't realize your steering wheel and driving were on the other side of the road. =) I saw more big cars than I exptected...not sure WHAT I was expecting, really! It's very cool we get to see that...some of us wouldn't otherwise.

[thebarber]

damn, thats a rough lookin suspension/wheel setup...

[Kaotic Lazagna]

How fast were you going? And the ride looks a little brutal. Do you visit your chiropractor a lot? LOL.

[m911gt]

Cool video Thomas, thanks for sharing your commute with us.

What camera mount are you using?

[custom Lftback]

yeah Thomas great vid! your yaris is my inspiration! lol

[dvlnblkdrs]

oops! :bellyroll: love the end.. great dismount

[LtNoogie]

Can we get some closeups and details about your gauge cluster in front of your steering wheel? That's what I found interesting! Thanks

[cali yaris]

Can I get all those hole in my GPS? LOL.

sure -- Google mosh!

What's the rightmost red gauge doing? looks like it's moving up and down a lot -- beginning of the vid.

[Revsson]

Can we get some closeups and details about your gauge cluster in front of your steering wheel? That's what I found interesting! Thanks

Have you looked at his garage? Or do you want even more closeups?

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/images/funkygarage/7/interior_explained.jpg

[Doc Zaius]

Hey Thomas... I like your location for your GPS... I'm stealing that! :biggrin:

[eTiMaGo]

Very nice video Thomas. You have pretty good street there. I hope I can go that fast. Here, in Venezuela I have to be looking at the street trying to avoid hole, our street sucks!!! Hole everywhere. Can I get all those hole in my GPS? LOL.

Ah the highways are pretty smooth, different story for surface roads :laugh:

So, is there a speed limit or are you ignoring it the way you're flying by everyone else? lol

The official speed limit on that highway is 80km/h (50MPH). Maybe one out of 50 cars actually follows that :laugh: I do normally drive around 100-120 (60-75MPH) but I wanted to show off a little for you guys :cool:

There is sporadic radar gun enforcement, but not in the middle of the night...

That was neat. I didn't realize your steering wheel and driving were on the other side of the road. =) I saw more big cars than I exptected...not sure WHAT I was expecting, really! It's very cool we get to see that...some of us wouldn't otherwise.

Pickup trucks are probably the most common "big" cars here, they're cheap a there's less tax on them.

damn, thats a rough lookin suspension/wheel setup...

Hahahhaha sure is :biggrin: Which is why I really wanna get some 15/16" wheels soon...

How fast were you going? And the ride looks a little brutal. Do you visit your chiropractor a lot? LOL.

Max I reached in that video was 160km/h - 100MPH

Cool video Thomas, thanks for sharing your commute with us.

What camera mount are you using?

Gorillapod wrapped around the upper seatbelt holes in the seat :biggrin: that's why it's not soooo solid!

you crazy Frenchman you're on the wrong zside of z road!!! cool vid Thomas!! very nicly filmed. btw you have a warning light on

That would be my driver's side airbag warning light, as I no longer have an airbag there :biggrin:

sure -- Google mosh!

What's the rightmost red gauge doing? looks like it's moving up and down a lot -- beginning of the vid.

narrowband A/F ratio... not quite as accurate as a wideband one but does give some interesting information (at WOT, it stops dancing and stays pegged around 12:1-11:1, and in DFCO is just drops to maximum lean and stays there)

Hey Thomas... I like your location for your GPS... I'm stealing that! :biggrin:

I stole that from cleong, it's really ideal! though it does expose the unit to the elements when you open the door...

[tk-421]

What the heck happened at the end?! My head started tilting to the left as if trying to get the camera to straighten up... :laugh:

I think I'm gonna do something similar soon.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Wow, that's 10mph faster than I ever drove my Vios. hehe.

[eTiMaGo]

What the heck happened at the end?! My head started tilting to the left as if trying to get the camera to straighten up... :laugh:


too much G forces man! My head unit has an accelerometer, and if it is not inaccurate I often get up to 0.95 lateral G's there :biggrin:

Wow, that's 10mph faster than I ever drove my Vios. hehe.

Welcome to the unofficial autobahn :biggrin:

Let's make it clear before anyone complains, that I do not condone speeding and driving dangerously :wink:

[Bob_VT]

too much G forces man! My head unit has an accelerometer, and if it is not inaccurate I often get up to 0.95 lateral G's there :biggrin:



Welcome to the unofficial autobahn :biggrin:

Let's make it clear before anyone complains, that I do not condone speeding and driving dangerously :wink:

Then why do you drive on the wrong side of the road :eek:

Nice video.:biggrin:

[eTiMaGo]

fine, I'll go drive on the right side tonight then and see what happens :laugh:

Gotta find the charger for the camera and I'll take an opposite video: hypermiling 101 :biggrin:

[Bob_VT]

Actually..... if you point the video to the rear and shoot it with a mirror to the front it would be correct.

Screw Hypermiling 101....... it's not as much fun and you know it!

[LtNoogie]

Have you looked at his garage? Or do you want even more closeups?

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/images/funkygarage/7/interior_explained.jpg

More closeups. I wanted to see how they were mounted.

[KCALB SIRAY]

The best part about that whole video was at the end when he let's out the little chuckle of excitement, lol. Nice vid =)

[eTiMaGo]

The best part about that whole video was at the end when he let's out the little chuckle of excitement, lol. Nice vid =)

don't forget the "oops" :biggrin:

It was just funny seeing the camera slumped over :laugh:

[KCALB SIRAY]

Ohh and the Offspring playing the beginning, that's about all I could make out. lol

[eTiMaGo]

yeah I had a random 90's playlist going on, good stuff :smile:

[dvlnblkdrs]

where was Bambo? He should have participated!

[KCALB SIRAY]

where was Bambo? He should have participated!

Who do you think was driving, lol

[dvlnblkdrs]

no, Bambo's head aint THAT big :bellyroll:

[puetato89]

ouch that was harsh... btw nice video... ill take a vid one year...(to poor to afford one)

[dvlnblkdrs]

always with love.. if i am friends with someone and like em.. how are they supposed to know i am friends with them unless i take good jabs at them once in a while :wink:

[puetato89]

true true... but wouldnt it be fun to just say hes a french bangkok

[dvlnblkdrs]

no more fun than telling someone they arent the yellow crayon & watch their face as they try to figure out what u just called them.. :bellyroll:

[puetato89]

lmao.... nice...
Yup ive got nuthin so you win..:frown:

[dvlnblkdrs]

awww no worries.. now im sure lots of people will steal that line(thats ok, i stole it from a coworker.. lol)

[puetato89]

ok then ill use it tomorrow so you wont feel 2 bad...:tongue:

[dvlnblkdrs]

hah, im sure u will love peoples reactions.. i know i do

[puetato89]

well going 2 bed its 2:10 am over here unlike for you cali folks with your time being earlier(DAMN YOU...jk)

[dvlnblkdrs]

haha gnight

[Black Yaris]

should have thrown Bambo on the dash for the video

[eTiMaGo]

hah that video was actually taken a couple of months ago, I only just found the docking cradle for the stupid camera :laugh:

But if I do take a new video, you'll be sure to have a fluffy tour guide :wink:

[KCALB SIRAY]

hah that video was actually taken a couple of months ago, I only just found the docking cradle for the stupid camera :laugh:

But if I do take a new video, you'll be sure to have a fluffy tour guide :wink:

You guys have fluffer tour guides:biggrin:

[contraband831]

nice turn! ;)

[LtNoogie]

Thomas, how big was the original video file. I'm playing around with my camera mount and am trying to make a video.

[eTiMaGo]

Thomas, how big was the original video file. I'm playing around with my camera mount and am trying to make a video.

It was recorded on a MiniDV camera, I have very little experience with those, but when I transfered out the original footage on my hard drive, it came to a 7GB uncompressed AVI file for about 16 minutes of video :eek:

That being said, recompressed to MP4 (h264 ftw!), at 640x480 resolution, the final 9-minute video was a little over 100MB

in-car video recording is addictive :laugh:

[LtNoogie]

Thanks. I filmed a short 3 minute video on my digital camera which is stored as an 640x480 AVI file. I'm guessing that there's little compression because the darn thing is 141MB.

Once I transfer this to YouTube, I'll try to recompress to MP4 to see how much smaller it can be.

Do you know if YouTube FLV keeps the same level of compression or do they compress?

[eTiMaGo]

Well, they took a pretty darn long time to process the video after I uploaded it, so they certainly recompressed it.

This should be good reading:
http://www.reely.com/darren/Guides/Preparing%20Video%20for%20YouTube/

[LtNoogie]

Thanks, that was a good read. I just uploaded a 28MB MP4 version of the recording but when I played it back on YouTube, I did not like the quality. I'm uploading the 141MB file right now and will compare the two before I post my own thread.

[eTiMaGo]

hmmm I just noticed there's a "watch in high quality" link below my video, loading it now, wonfer how big of a difference it makes...

edit: it's about as sharp as the original uploaded video :thumbsup:

[SilverBack]

Nice vid! How'd you get your tach lights to pulse like that?

[eTiMaGo]

I think it's just some kind of interference with the video refresh rate due to the PWM dimming, they're quite steady to the eye :smile:

[SilverBack]

Oh I see now. Well it still had a pretty awesome effect, kinda like the heart beat of the car. Possibly a new accessory mod to your car in the future, if it exists :smile:

BTW, my ex-GFs face used to throb like that whenever I pissed her off LOL

[aucorium]

i dig the video's Thomas! would you guys like to see some videos of the cape town , south africa scene?

[eTiMaGo]

definitely!

[aucorium]

definitely!


awesome , i'll set something up , im organising a cruise for the weekend , will make sure i take the cam with .

how you doing T ? hows this goin yourside? hope you had a great Xmas and new year.all the best for 2009.:thumbup:

[CtrlAltDefeat]

this is awesome... your car is inspiring me... can't wait till I can afford more....:burnrubber: