OVERVIEW

Video VBOX from Racelogic is a high quality solid state video recorder combined with a GPS data logger and real-time graphics engine.

GRAPHICS ENGINE

Every aspect of Video VBOX has been designed to maximise the quality of the video and graphics. An extremely powerful 32bit 333MHz graphics processor is at the heart of the system, producing stunning 24bit colour graphics with 256 levels of alpha blending (transparency). The graphics are fully customisable, allowing you to choose from a number of standard dashboard styles or simply create your own from scratch.

To produce the very best results, Video VBOX can encode at full DVD quality using an advanced MPEG-4 encoder chip. The picture-in-picture is done digitally inside Video VBOX, removing the need for an external picture-in-picture box which degrades the video.

MPEG-4 was chosen as the primary encoding stream because it uses 3-4 times less space than the older MPEG-2 style format. Stereo sound is recorded as an MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) audio format, which is the de-facto broadcast standard.

RECORDING OPTIONS

You can record either to a removable compact flash card, the internal flash memory disk (optional), or an external USB flash disk. Video VBOX incorporates Ultra DMA transfer, so if you have a compatible flash card, you can record up to 8Mbits/s, which is one of the fastest on the market and can give an almost broadcast level picture quality.

The video format and writing method we use has been carefully constructed so that power loss or un-planned card removal will not result in the entire video file being corrupted. For backwards compatibility Video VBOX can also record in MPEG-2 format. A great option to save disk space is to record only when the vehicle is moving, meaning you won’t end up with long periods of static video.

INTERNAL MEMORY

This option is very useful if you run out of card space, or you forget to take a card with you to the track.

GPS ENGINE

Video VBOX incorporates the same GPS technology used in Racelogic's award winning VBOX range, which provides highly accurate speed, time, distance, acceleration and positional information. This information is used to drive the graphics overlay system and is also logged within the video stream for use with the VBOX data analysis system.