Cache

[TrooperDrone]

I’m looking for more information about how the cache works. I had some super choppy footage today and so I went ahead and deleted the cache and formatted my SD card. Not sure if that was why or not, I had perfect signal according to the top of my iPad screen and I was also in 5.8GHz and I tried connecting via OTG as well as no OTG.

So I noticed a setting was turned on and it said something about “cache while recording” should that be on and what will it do if I turn it off?

 

[Mako79]

Cache is the video stream. It gets recorded in 720p onto your smartphone/device. The cached video is very compressed and grainy. The video you want to use to edit/upload is the one in the spark/aircraft.

 

[Dronason]

The cached video can be very useful to retrieve a lost Spark as it will be the last moment it was linked and you can replay it and could give you extra indication to the flight record you get in any case.

 

[Mako79]

The cached video can be very useful to retrieve a lost Spark as it will be the last moment it was linked and you can replay it and could give you extra indication to the flight record you get in any case.

Only if you hit the record button..

 

[Pappy]

Only if you hit the record button..

Yep, I hit it before takeoff every time just for this reason (to have video record in case there's an incident while flying).

 

[Dronason]

Only if you hit the record button..

Seems you are right, so better to keep recording.

 

[msinger]

I noticed a setting was turned on and it said something about “cache while recording” should that be on and what will it do if I turn it off?

If using a slower mobile device, turning off that setting will sometimes fix choppiness in the live view in DJI GO. It will not affect the footage recorded on the Spark's memory card though.

 

[TrooperDrone]

Thanks for all the replies guys