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I really admire the writer of the firmware here. This person spent the extra time to embed the actual data into the image. This is the kinda stuff I'd love to s

I really admire the writer of the firmware here. This person spent the extra time to embed the actual data into the image. This is the kinda stuff I'd love to see officially documented in a PDF by the manufacturer, if we actually owned the things we owned. My FLIR camera that I use for electronics only exports in JPEG, with the GUI baked into the image and some pretty crappy JPEG compression artifacts. Lame.

Nextgrid 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there were bullshit reasons for explicitly not exposing this information to the user and this was an engineer's way of maliciously complying with that requirement.
- IshKebab 4y ago
  There's no restriction on exporting raw data. Just on resolution and maximum frame rate. Hence the annoying 9fps limit on FLIR's consumer products. Though I half suspect they also do that for market segmentation since there's a long list of countries that the export restrictions don't apply to. You can easily buy their super expensive cameras which don't have a frame rate limit if you have the money.
- myself248 4y ago
  There are no legal limitations on the data, just the frame rate. You just pay extra for a model with fully radiometric export. Which is running the same firmware package and just has different options in the signed config file. It's 100% artificial.
  - Nextgrid 4y ago
    > It's 100% artificial. That was my point when I said "bullshit reasons".
ReactiveJelly 4y ago
Same trouble with certain GPS dashcams. The coordinates and date/time are burned into the video, and the font is pure white. So you can extract the info with OCR... unless you point your car into the sun and the glare of the hood blows out the bottom of the image where the text is.
sdflhasjd 4y ago
What FLIR camera is that? I have an E4 and it does the same thing described in the article; inside the crappy jpegs is the "raw" data embedded in them. The FLIR desktop software uses this data for further analysis and you can export higher quality PNGs from there.

Nextgrid 4y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if there were bullshit reasons for explicitly not exposing this information to the user and this was an engineer's way of maliciously complying with that requirement.

IshKebab 4y ago
There's no restriction on exporting raw data. Just on resolution and maximum frame rate. Hence the annoying 9fps limit on FLIR's consumer products. Though I half suspect they also do that for market segmentation since there's a long list of countries that the export restrictions don't apply to. You can easily buy their super expensive cameras which don't have a frame rate limit if you have the money.
myself248 4y ago
There are no legal limitations on the data, just the frame rate. You just pay extra for a model with fully radiometric export. Which is running the same firmware package and just has different options in the signed config file. It's 100% artificial.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  > It's 100% artificial. That was my point when I said "bullshit reasons".

ReactiveJelly 4y ago

Same trouble with certain GPS dashcams. The coordinates and date/time are burned into the video, and the font is pure white. So you can extract the info with OCR... unless you point your car into the sun and the glare of the hood blows out the bottom of the image where the text is.

sdflhasjd 4y ago

What FLIR camera is that? I have an E4 and it does the same thing described in the article; inside the crappy jpegs is the "raw" data embedded in them. The FLIR desktop software uses this data for further analysis and you can export higher quality PNGs from there.