Patent ID: 7027719

Claim:
A catastrophic event-survivable video recording system, comprising: a video data compression unit having at least a first output, said first output comprising compressed digital video data; a solid state video data recording unit having at least a first input in signal communication with said first output from said video data compression unit, said solid state video data recording unit being capable of recording compressed digital video data in catastrophic event-survivable form; and a video data interface in signal communication between said video compressor first output and said solid state video data recording unit first input, said video data interface being capable of converting said compressed video data of said video data compression unit first output to a compressed video data signal that is suitable for recording by said solid state video data recording unit as a signal input to said video data recording unit first input; wherein said solid state video data recording unit comprises a conventional flight data recording unit including a processor, said conventional flight data recording unit being manufactured so that said processor runs at a first processing speed; and wherein said conventional flight data recording unit is configured with a software modification to cause said processor to run at a second processing speed, said second processing speed being faster than said first processing speed.