The Camcorder Customization thread!

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 74

With the release of Ops 0.5, I figured we should have a thread where we can all share our replacement startup and shutdown screens that we use on our camcorders, as well as replacement sound files if anyone's gotten those to work yet. Don't post an image or sound file or other custom cam entity if you haven't SUCCESSFULLY uploaded it to your camcorder and gotten it to work.

Go!

Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 10

Here's what I'm using for my startup screen for now. It's pretty simple but I'll be spending some more time on a better one sometime.

Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1541 Location: jacksonville, fl

from my guenea pig camcorder that gets all the abuse, it also has silent wav files, no stickers, and still works like it came from the store.

from my other camcoder i treat a little better and gets things done to it after i make sure the other one can handle it

EDIT: just got a third camcorder to give to a friend for her birthday tommorow, and gave it a hello kitty screen. no shutdown screen other than it being blanked out since it wasn't working well... oh well.

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

Ive tried all of your screens and unfortunately the only one i can get to sucessfully work is twist's "hello" screen (http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=761&start=0)

Does anyone know why that is?

Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 61

Well, I took a "stab" at a customized screen pack...

http://home.cinci.rr.com/mmcadams1/images/pure_evil.zip

...all work perfectly for me.

...edit...

I ran into a situation on camcorder #2 where I seem to have gained some
extra bytes in p4 or something... only by using the dummy file in place of
PROCES~3.JPG can I fit all 3 custom screens in now. I have no clue how
I did it or where the bytes are hiding...

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 68 Location: new orleans

it has a hartagram in the background it is a sybol for the band HIM

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 93

I couldn't find a duck, so I used the next best thing Razz

Frog Cam:

Splash Screen:

ShutDown Screen:

Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 191 Location: Medford, MA

Frog cam?

I should make that into a boot screen. But it doesn't turn into a horse when I'm looking sideways at it Smile

Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 57

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

YES! I finally found a method of uploading that works every time. Instead of using a dummy file, I upload twist's "hello" screen first, then right after I upload the one I want to use. WORKS EVERY TIME! WOOT!

EDIT: Here are some of my splash screens:

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 93

Drmn4ea wrote:

Frog cam?

I should make that into a boot screen. But it doesn't turn into a horse when I'm looking sideways at it Smile

matbe if you were standing on your head & closed one eyes you could see it Shocked

if that fails, you could always try viewing this image:

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

I think this should be made a sticky for people who want to change their screens, but want to try out some samples first. Twist should also post his "hello" and shutdown screen so we have a collection all together.

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 45

Here you go:

Startup Screen

Preview:

Download: Hello Splash Screen

Shutdown Screen

Description: It's the same as the CVS shutoff screen, except the "Turning off" text is centered, and "CVS" is removed.

Download: Alternate Shutdown Screen

Both these are 100% guarenteed to work on all cams, PCB versions B1 to B3.

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

Hey twist, I was messing around with my camcorder trying to make and upload a new picture, and now when I try to upload your "hello" it won't even do that! I tried deleting the SPLASH.JPG file but it just comes back on startup. The only th ing that works is uploading a 0 byte file over the other 0 byte file, but then it wont allow me to upload anything else like it used to Sad

Do you have any Idea why? any easy way to reset it?

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 45

Try uploading a really dummy file over SPLASH.JPG. (< 1KB file of junk text). Then disconnect & reconnect your cam and try uploading a regular splash pic.

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

oh man thanks twist that worked PERFECT! Thanks again!

By the way, I made a file exactly 1KB (1024 bytes) by just typing in a notepad document until one line was filled. Turns out that one line in Notepad is exactly one KB! ;) good luck all!

EDIT: Here are some more screens for you guys

DOOM ON THE CAMCORDER!!!!111one ;)

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 74

That apple one is slick, fits the color scheme of the cam nicely.

You should make a second one for the Pure Digital logo replacement, except have the progress "circle" filled in more to create the illusion of the camera loading on bootup.

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

Yeah, I really wish they supported ani gif's for loading cause that would be sick.

Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Maumee, Ohio

All very nice - thought I'd finally join the fun after lurking here since Saturday night.

Haven't had success with getting it's sister screen on for the shutdown but I'll keep at it.

Can't wait till the firmware is understood and the compression becomes adjustable. Just wish I could contribute to the effort more. Been 15 yrs since I messed with any code.

Just went with a USB-B port to be most flexible for me.

Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 13

now what would be could is to get it to play a animated gif or mini movie

Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 61

Here's a couple more...

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 74

Very nice. but an XP shutdown screen on a Mac??? 8)

Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 61

I call it IRONY! Laughing

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 278

You just had to one-up me, didnt you? ;)

Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 10

Here's my newest ones: