Thread: Recording Question

My macbook recognizes the card, but says something along the lines of, unable to play footage, and it says to search for an app so it can be played. I searched that and nothing would show up on the search. A disc came with my humminbirds, and when i put it in my macbook, it says that its a different software than what macs can run. So i have no idea whats on this disc. But im thinking that the software on the disc, is the "card reader" if you will. And without that then I cant view my recordings. But that cant be uploaded to my computer because its a mac. I think if it was a windows I wouldnt be having this issue. I would like to take the disc to my mom's computer to test my theory, but most of the times, these disc are a one upload and done. And If i upload it to my mom's computer then I wouldnt ever be able to put it on a different one.

Originally Posted by LowePro

My macbook recognizes the card, but says something along the lines of, unable to play footage, and it says to search for an app so it can be played. I searched that and nothing would show up on the search. A disc came with my humminbirds, and when i put it in my macbook, it says that its a different software than what macs can run. So i have no idea whats on this disc. But im thinking that the software on the disc, is the "card reader" if you will. And without that then I cant view my recordings. But that cant be uploaded to my computer because its a mac. I think if it was a windows I wouldnt be having this issue. I would like to take the disc to my mom's computer to test my theory, but most of the times, these disc are a one upload and done. And If i upload it to my mom's computer then I wouldnt ever be able to put it on a different one.

The disk that came with your unit is the Installation/User manual for your unit...

HB does not make software that will open/show the Snapshots and/or recordings...(HB only makes the unit itself be able to show/view the Snapshots and Recordings)...

If you can get the Mac to open the SD Card , there will be files and folders on the SD Card...

The "Profile" file is the information of your specific unit that HBPC would read...(not gonna happen in your Mac)..
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The "Matrix" folder stores the Nav data..(if you have "Exported All Nav Data" from the unit memory to the SD Card)...
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The "Snapshots" folder stores the unit screenshots taken and the associated files necessary for the HB unit to display those snapshots in the "Snapshot and Recording" view of the unit itself...

Inside the "Snapshots" folder there will be a .PNG file that is the actual screenshot that your Mac should be able to display by clicking on the .PNG file...(the .dat file associated with each .PNG file is only necessary if viewing that snapshot on the HB unit...so just leave it alone)....
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The "Recording" folder stores the recordings made on the unit...these recordings can be played back in the unit itself ... Or in certain 3rd party software programs...Yellowfin, Humviewer, Deepview, SI View...
Other 3rd Party Software
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Can you get your Mac to recognize the SD Card ...such that you can see the above files and folders I mentioned...??

Rickie

Yes sir it does recognize the files. Just says that it cant be played. What is humviewer? How much is that? Is that a software that I could install to play the recording. So If I take just snapshots then my mack will open that?
So if I buy a windows computer, that should play it?

Originally Posted by LowePro

Yes sir it does recognize the files. Just says that it cant be played. What is humviewer? How much is that? Is that a software that I could install to play the recording. So If I take just snapshots then my mack will open that?
So if I buy a windows computer, that should play it?

Let's try snapshots first before we get into Humviewer...

If your Mac is opening the SD Card such that you can see the "Profile", Matrix (if Nav data), Snapshots (if any taken), Record (if any taken)...

Click on the "Snapshot" folder...

When it opens ...click on one of the files that has a .PNG extension...

Does the snapshot open on your Mac...??

Rickie

Ok. I wont be back on the water until Monday. I did a recording because I was thinking I could make snap shots out of the recording. Snap shots is what I want to accomplish so I can post em on this website so its not a "picture of a picture". So monday will take some snapshots only! Thankyou.

You can definitely open the screen snapshots on your Mac! Depending on which Mac you have, you can run vm and install windows, then you can run HBPC on it. That's what I do.

Awesome Redge! Will try that! I have a 2011 macbook pro. What is vm? And how do I install windows?

VMware Fusion is a program, runs a virtual machine (windows) on your Mac. You also have to own a copy of windows. I have a MBP also, running mavericks.