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Video recording - fps

Hi
Had a search and couldn't find an answer so here I go.
I believe that the desire records at 15 fps which leads to choppy recordings vs my iPhone 3gs. I was wondering, is there a hack to increase the fps beyond what it currently sits at?
Thanks
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Gooner4_1998 said:
Hi
Had a search and couldn't find an answer so here I go.
I believe that the desire records at 15 fps which leads to choppy recordings vs my iPhone 3gs. I was wondering, is there a hack to increase the fps beyond what it currently sits at?
Thanks
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Sent from my HTC Desire
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Yes, Froyo. Should add 720p recording at min 20 FPS.

Does the eventual update also add better sound quality to video recordings?
I say AMR 8000khz codec is worse then my now defunct N73....

kwikdahl said:
Does the eventual update also add better sound quality to video recordings?
I say AMR 8000khz codec is worse then my now defunct N73....
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+1 I'd rather see a steady 30fps + great audio quality 480p video, than crappy 720p.

Is there a hack to get 30 fps now?!
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Gooner4_1998 said:
Is there a hack to get 30 fps now?!
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No. 10charbla

I really don't see why HTC chose to only encode audio with the AMR-codec at such low quality... Is the microphone of such poor quality that they "hide" it using this codec?
Anyone tried recording sound using some another software?

kwikdahl said:
I really don't see why HTC chose to only encode audio with the AMR-codec at such low quality... Is the microphone of such poor quality that they "hide" it using this codec?
Anyone tried recording sound using some another software?
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Try the built in Voice Recorder?

It's the same crappy quality...

kwikdahl said:
It's the same crappy quality...
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Then using "other software" will only serve to mask it, if anything.

kwikdahl said:
It's the same crappy quality...
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Most likely, almost make me wonder why not to let go S.Jobs dictatorship when i look this video what is claimed to be shooted in iphone4 (sorry my swearing) http://cl.ly/1P50. Almost.

What would your guys recommend for playing .avi videos on the Desire? There are so many to choose from. Act 1 is good? It's not free

What would your guys recommend for playing .avi videos on the Desire? There are so many to choose from. Act 1 is good? It's not free
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The beta RockPlayer is the best AVI player we currently have. However, which AVI it plays depends on that vids properties (like format).
Check the themes and apps section under titles like 'DivX/XviD player'.
Act 1 is excellent for many other vids, like H.264.
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I really don't see why HTC chose to only encode audio with the AMR-codec at such low quality... Is the microphone of such poor quality that they "hide" it using this codec?
Anyone tried recording sound using some another software?
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I can't link or search threads through the phone app but this has been discussed extensively before. You can record much higher quality audio using other apps. Mainly those saving in MP3, PCM, MP4 and WAV. I'm not sure how they do it though.
For simple, quick, voice recording I use Virtual Recorder the most.
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fimae said:
Most likely, almost make me wonder why not to let go S.Jobs dictatorship when i look this video what is claimed to be shooted in iphone4 (sorry my swearing) http://cl.ly/1P50. Almost.
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wow. thats amazing quality

MaTiCeK- said:
+1 I'd rather see a steady 30fps + great audio quality 480p video, than crappy 720p.
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i absolutely agree with you....i want a super smooth recording and playback at the 480p size and not more...if the quality of this is good then you can upscale it with conversion...but if it's crappy high resolution then even if you downgrade it it won't be very smooth

You can already see what the unofficial, hacked HD recording is like, i.e. http://db.tt/0Ngrnd
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th3 said:
The beta RockPlayer is the best AVI player we currently have. However, which AVI it plays depends on that vids properties (like format).
Check the themes and apps section under titles like 'DivX/XviD player'.
Act 1 is excellent for many other vids, like H.264.
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Thanks. It's been a week with the Desire and i still feel so lost
Changing is hard to do

lambrospower said:
i absolutely agree with you....i want a super smooth recording and playback at the 480p size and not more...if the quality of this is good then you can upscale it with conversion...but if it's crappy high resolution then even if you downgrade it it won't be very smooth
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As has been discussed a few times priorly, the current vid recording FPS have been observed to fluctuate between ~3-28 based on the ambient light levels, level of motion in the footage and the speed of the cam movement. The current recording can be much improved over but these factors contribute to some hard fundamental limitations.
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Recording video to h.264 codec on Evo?

This question is for developers. Can devs replace crappy compression codec on Evo recording cam to record with h.264 to improve quality of vids we shoot by far. Current cam codec is SO bad that 720p does no justice for the cam. Basically in my view camcorder is useless. H.264 would change the whole game for this phone. Would love to see the rom with h.264 video camera codec. Would any shead some light on this ?

stewie-droid said:
This question is for developers. Can devs replace crappy compression codec on Evo recording cam to record with h.264 to improve quality of vids we shoot by far. Current cam codec is SO bad that 720p does no justice for the cam. Basically in my view camcorder is useless. H.264 would change the whole game for this phone. Would love to see the rom with h.264 video camera codec. Would any shead some light on this ?
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they cant do a whole lot with any camera settings till the source kernal is released. Who knows when that will be heh

stewie-droid said:
This question is for developers. Can devs replace crappy compression codec on Evo recording cam to record with h.264 to improve quality of vids we shoot by far. Current cam codec is SO bad that 720p does no justice for the cam. Basically in my view camcorder is useless. H.264 would change the whole game for this phone. Would love to see the rom with h.264 video camera codec. Would any shead some light on this ?
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Do you even know what the current cam codec is?
It's MPEG-4 Part 2 (generally referred to as "MPEG-4"), which is most commonly known for it's implementations in divx/xvid.
It's not as trendy as H.264 (aka MPEG-4 Part 10 and/or AVC), but generally quality isn't what people take issue with when choosing h.264 over MP4 - it's filesize. When you get into higher resolutions with higher bit-depths, being able to compress a stream allows you to work around issues with slow write speeds.
I think you really aren't familiar with video encoding or codecs in general. You should educate yourself a bit more before announcing that a simple codec change will resolve the camera woes with the Evo.
h.264 is currently patent encumbered, which is part of why you don't see it implemented so widely.
Swapping out the codec isn't going to be a magic fix to improve this camera. It's limited by it's very design. Consider the 720p video a novelty and try to only shoot in situations with lots of ambient light and it'll be far more usable.

Petronic said:
Do you even know what the current cam codec is?
It's MPEG-4 Part 2 (generally referred to as "MPEG-4"), which is most commonly known for it's implementations in divx/xvid.
It's not as trendy as H.264 (aka MPEG-4 Part 10 and/or AVC), but generally quality isn't what people take issue with when choosing h.264 over MP4 - it's filesize. When you get into higher resolutions with higher bit-depths, being able to compress a stream allows you to work around issues with slow write speeds.
I think you really aren't familiar with video encoding or codecs in general. You should educate yourself a bit more before announcing that a simple codec change will resolve the camera woes with the Evo.
h.264 is currently patent encumbered, which is part of why you don't see it implemented so widely.
Swapping out the codec isn't going to be a magic fix to improve this camera. It's limited by it's very design. Consider the 720p video a novelty and try to only shoot in situations with lots of ambient light and it'll be far more usable.
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I agree with you. But x.264 is not involved in any patent issues, is free, and works very will with the best container format available to date... mkv.
Now the phone will do hardware decoding of x/h.264 but you are right, I don't see any advantage other than the smaller file size. You are right again, on one of those P labeled cams the h.264 stream is much smaller than that of mpeg-2/dvd or others so it works well on those crappy hardware writers.
Changing the encoding profile of this camera would not fix your issues OP.

I've never seen bad quality from h.264 codec but then again i agree i have not research enough on the codecs comparison enough but that's why i'm asking. I just know it looks horrible. Somehow camera pics are acceptable. Thank you for the input.

stewie-droid said:
I've never seen bad quality from h.264 codec but then again i agree i have not research enough on the codecs comparison enough but that's why i'm asking. I just know it looks horrible. Somehow camera pics are acceptable. Thank you for the input.
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I could encode an h.264 video in a low bitrate and low resolution and it would look bad. The codec is only one factor involved in the end result. Different codecs can squeeze better quality video into a smaller file size but it comes at the expense of CPU use and other bottlenecks. In this case I don't think the choice of codec is what is holding back the video. It's probably more about processing power and overall architecture.

I'm not sure that implementing x.264 compression for the EVO would solve anything. From my experience in order to have better quality with h.264 over h.263 it requires much more processing power due to the higher compression complexity.. This would all have to be done real time by the phone.
With the great hardware being sported by the EVO I wonder if a more unorthodox approach could be implemented to attain the highest quality possible.
How about this:
Capture video using a real time lossless compression. Maybe huffyuv?
Once captured let the phone recompress the source to x.264 or whatever via a background service or at a scheduled time like 3am or something
Maybe via this method a higher frame rate could even be achieved?

amdchip said:
I'm not sure that implementing x.264 compression for the EVO would solve anything. From my experience in order to have better quality with h.264 over h.263 it requires much more processing power due to the higher compression complexity.. This would all have to be done real time by the phone.
With the great hardware being sported by the EVO I wonder if a more unorthodox approach could be implemented to attain the highest quality possible.
How about this:
Capture video using a real time lossless compression. Maybe huffyuv?
Once captured let the phone recompress the source to x.264 or whatever via a background service or at a scheduled time like 3am or something
Maybe via this method a higher frame rate could even be achieved?
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Uncompressed [email protected] with 8-bit color would be something like 45MB/s. (That's excluding audio.)
No current SD card supports those write speeds.
I'm not sure that you could losslessly compress it down to something that'd support even a class 6 card.

Petronic said:
Uncompressed [email protected] with 8-bit color would be something like 45MB/s. (That's excluding audio.)
No current SD card supports those write speeds.
I'm not sure that you could losslessly compress it down to something that'd support even a class 6 card.
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Eeeeek!!
I checked it out and you are right on the money.
(8 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 105 MB per/sec) / (2.33:1 huffyuv) = 45.06
Still I wonder if better video quality could be achieved via a capture now (large file size) compress later (small file size) solution.
Certainly, considering your well taken point, we would need to keep things within the requirements of the EVO's hardware (sd card included). Probably would need to keep the data rates within the EVO's stock microsd specifications in order for it to be viable for everyone.

The iPhone 4 can record in h.264 and its processor isnt *that* much more powerful than Snapdragon (and the camera is similar--same company, same sensor size, same features, just 5MP instead of 8MP). What it comes down to is lazy coding by HTC

I don't know if you guys have looked in the build.prop file but the settings are in there. I just don't have alot of time to play with them but here's what's inside. Sprint/HTC changed the line in 1.47,ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps, to 8000000 from 6000000 on 1.32, so I'm guessing that's how they upped the Mbits in the upgrade. I could be wrong and the change may need to be in the kernel also but play with them and see.
Code:
#
# This file describes the media capabilities and profiles
# using system properties.
#
# Note: The property key and value has some length
# limit as defined by PROPERTY_KEY_MAX and
# PROPERTY_VALUE_MAX, respectively
#
# WARNING: We may not use system properties for specifying
# media capabilities and profiles in the future
#
ro.media.enc.file.format = 3gp,mp4
ro.media.enc.vid.codec = m4v,h263
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.width = 176,1280
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.height = 144,720
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.bps = 64000,6000000
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.fps = 1,30
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.width = 176,1280
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.height = 144,720
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps = 64000,8000000
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.fps = 1,30
#
# Increase SKIA decode memory capability for progressive jpg file
#
ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap = 20000000

I may not be a...
developer but when you are talking about codec you are talking my language (I am an editor). H264 isn't that great itself and won't make the EVO's footage look any better yeah you get some more detail out of the H264 but the real reason the camera doesn't look as good is the variable fps in different lighting conditions. The variable kills it. The cam should be fixed at 24fps or 30fps. If that can be done you will see a major difference. I'm not sold on the white balance either. Also I would love to have h264 but the difference in the two is compression. H264 is better but again FPS is key.

I agree as well as most of the other people that h.264 won't help by itself.
Though one thing it would help with is allowing to bump up to a higher bit rate and or FPS and still maintain speeds sufficient for Class 2 SD cards. So, even though it won't do anything by itself, it will help in that you could in theory record higher quality video to your phone.

billobob said:
The iPhone 4 can record in h.264 and its processor isnt *that* much more powerful than Snapdragon (and the camera is similar--same company, same sensor size, same features, just 5MP instead of 8MP). What it comes down to is lazy coding by HTC
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Das troo, I emailed Omnivision about the issue, they said that their Evo is great there, and that I should contact HTC about it and had said they created the driver/software for it.
"Hi Steve,
I’m sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues video performance. The HTC EVO we have here works great. OmniVision only makes the sensor. HTC makes the drivers and software that run the sensor. Unfortunately, you will need to contact them with any issues.
Sorry, I couldn’t be more help.
Scott"
Then I had asked them if they have any samples they used. And sent me a video they just recorded.
"We just went outside and took this simple video. Hope it helps.
Scott"
Currently uploading right now, i'll edit the link.
EDIT: here you go
bit.ly/c0lwOb
What do you guys think?

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EDIT: here you go
bit.ly/c0lwOb
What do you guys think?
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Not able to post links yet I'm guessing. Just type it out.

Holyrolla said:
Not able to post links yet I'm guessing. Just type it out.
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you don't see the link? its a bit[dot]ly link. But yea i can't post links yet, so I used the URL shortening.
bit[dot]ly/ c0lwOb

That video is pretty clear, but jumpy as well (expected). Wondering if they tweaked it or installed the OTA update on it?

Holyrolla said:
That video is pretty clear, but jumpy as well (expected). Wondering if they tweaked it or installed the OTA update on it?
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Thats what I wondered to, but I guess not.
We are using one of our employees phones he bought from Sprint. All of the drivers and software are stock and from HTC.
Scott

Good god, that video sample is hideous! Look at this video comparison done between the Evo and the iPhone 4 in the exact same scene. There's just no competition between the two.

Good god, our Evo sucks mighty ass in the 720p category.

Why is the 720P recording always come out choppy with artifacts?!!?!

Seriously every single video I record comes out with artifacts and choppy/freezing. What in the world is happening. I can't be the only one? Fix for this!!? So disappointing, sigh

Try on CM6. HTC sucks at coding.
They set a low bit rate in the video with high compression. CM has normal ones, plus they're working on better audio.

Geniusdog254 said:
Try on CM6. HTC sucks at coding.
They set a low bit rate in the video with high compression. CM has normal ones, plus they're working on better audio.
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Damn out of all the times I've flashed CM6 I've never tried the HD recording! This might be the definite deal breaker for me for Sense Roms.

Yeah. It looks really nice on CM6. >_<

I had the same issue with 2.1 and 2.2. I noticed that when I played the video for a second time it would play smooth (maybe it got cached). I just changed the SD card to a Ridata class 6 and now videos always play OK.
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teomorell said:
I had the same issue with 2.1 and 2.2. I noticed that when I played the video for a second time it would play smooth (maybe it got cached). I just changed the SD card to a Ridata class 6 and now videos always play OK.
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Yeah but it also plays back choppy on my computer when I transfer the file over or if I upload it to YouTube or anywhere else. I am going to try CM6 now and see what kind of results I get.

I'll admit I haven't tried 720P recording on CM6 in a few weeks but under RC1 the issue I was having was that the video and audio would lose sync...I took a recording of my dog barking at my cat and the video of the bark was showing before the bark sound. I guess I should try it on the nightly I'm running now and see how it is.

do not record in mpeg4 try H.264 that worked for me

andre104623 said:
do not record in mpeg4 try H.264 that worked for me
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H.264 Doesn't do 720P though?

Vandam500 said:
Seriously every single video I record comes out with artifacts and choppy/freezing. What in the world is happening. I can't be the only one? Fix for this!!? So disappointing, sigh
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Video quality sucks man.. its the worst and 3GP video files are impossible to edit

Vandam500 said:
H.264 Doesn't do 720P though?
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H.264 does H.263 doesnt

Improved 720p recording for both font and back camera - mp4 format

Must have ROOT
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I have just uploaded V2 of my profile - I have lowered the Bitrate slightly and changed from 3gp to mp4 file format.. I have also enabled 720p for the front facing camera - Let me know if the lowered bitrate still performs as well.
Folks,
This is my edited media_profile.xml for far better 720p recording.. thought I would share it..
I have upped the bitrate from just 1MB/s (default)to around 4MB/s.. for me, it is clearly better when played on my Monitor or Television.. smoother, more detail and appears clearer.
I have tried a higher bitrate but found this to be a good balance between size and quality.
I have also tried editing the xml for 1080p recording but cannot get higher than 14fps when recording so have not included it..
to install, just unrar the media_profiles.xml and copy it to /system/etc and reboot.... REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR ORIGINAL FIRST.
This has worked for me, but if you end up in a boot loop, pushing the original file should fix it.
Hope you enjoy it.
Bracken

Do you have a comparison video or anything? This is the kind of thing I want to see before flashing.

Nice find!
I can see the difference just watching play back on the xoom! Alot smoother...ill check out the HDMI when I get home.
Will this work on any Android device? Say my DX? I take way more video on that.

bracken21 said:
Must have ROOT
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I have also tried editing the xml for 1080p recording but cannot get higher than 14fps when recording so have not included it..
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have you a stock Kernel or Custom Kernel + overclocked CPU?

Works well, I have a similar hack for my Nexus.
Easy and simple improvement for video recording.
Using Hammerhead 2.1 & Tachi OCed kernel.
@bracken21 = does this affect the still camera picture taking?
Thank you very much, great mod.

Hi,
@Sergio PC -This does not affect the picture quality only the video..
@twister_65 -I had this completely on stock 3.1 with stock kernel and worked fined.. I'm now running it with Hammerhead 2.1 & Tachi OCed kernel.
Even OCed @1.6, when I enable 1080p recording there is no increase in FPS, it stays at around 14FPS.. I presume the actual sensor is not capable of [email protected]
@mradlauer - I have no idea if this could be done to the DX, I presume so, but what resolution, bitrate and FPS would depend on the device.. if its anything like the Xoom, putting in an unsupported profile may result in a boot loop ?
If there is interest I can upload another profile with settings as follows... but I find it pointless as 1080p @ 14fps is unwatchable.. I have tried increasing/decreasing the Bitrate but still only does 14fps.
1080p 6MB/s @ 14fps when high quality selected.
720p 4MB/s @ 30 when low quality selected.
720p @ 30fps for front facing camera.
Thanks
Bracken

720p for front would be awesome.

Great, i just would love to have it recording in MP4
€: Wait, trying it now
€²: Works Thx for This

Would changing any of these lines to 100 improve photo quality too?
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />

Stealyourface said:
720p for front would be awesome.
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Front camera now enabled for 720p and file format changed to mp4
cheers
Bracken

truly great work here. thank you
im just surprised no one had done this sooner, but better late than never!!
ive only played wtih it for litterally 30 seconds however i noticed that upon pressing the record button for a video using the front facing camera, it zooms in and stretches the image vertically in the preview window. i dont think that it actually records it like this but it seems to be some sort of graphical glitch....maybe you could look into it?
id like to say thanks again. did you change anything for the still images in v2 or somthing? because i no longer see those weird lines when taking photos with the front facing camera.
THANKS!

crackmulah said:
however i noticed that upon pressing the record button for a video using the front facing camera, it zooms in and stretches the image vertically in the preview window. i dont think that it actually records it like this but it seems to be some sort of graphical glitch....
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I've noticed the same issue when recording from the front camera

Excuse me, but trying this mod, I realized that the zoom in camera mode does not work. And 'this normal?
Thanks!

zoom isnt working in video mode for me either.
although i cant remember if we were ever able to.....
can you add this ?

I tried now, even the stock 3.1 does not allow it. Is there any mod ?
Regards!

Nice find.
Pretty easy to increase or lower the bitrate yourself.
I personally upped the bitrate to 35MB/s for 720p.
Adjusted the 480p resolution to 720x480 @ 20Mb/s for quick and easy converts straight to dvd with no resolution changes.
Adjusted the audio bitrate to 256kbps, sample rate to 48khz and enabled stereo recording.
Sweet stuff.
edit: Tried shooting for 60fps but it forced closed as soon as I tried to select video recording

Audionut11 said:
Nice find.
Pretty easy to increase or lower the bitrate yourself.
I personally upped the bitrate to 35MB/s for 720p.
Adjusted the 480p resolution to 720x480 @ 20Mb/s for quick and easy converts straight to dvd with no resolution changes.
Adjusted the audio bitrate to 256kbps, sample rate to 48khz and enabled stereo recording.
Sweet stuff.
edit: Tried shooting for 60fps but it forced closed as soon as I tried to select video recording
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Do you mind posting your xml file... I personally like the tweaks you have done and would like the same..
Thanks in advance

Audionut11 said:
Nice find.
Pretty easy to increase or lower the bitrate yourself.
I personally upped the bitrate to 35MB/s for 720p.
Adjusted the 480p resolution to 720x480 @ 20Mb/s for quick and easy converts straight to dvd with no resolution changes.
Adjusted the audio bitrate to 256kbps, sample rate to 48khz and enabled stereo recording.
Sweet stuff.
edit: Tried shooting for 60fps but it forced closed as soon as I tried to select video recording
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35MB/s is 2.1Gb per minute - that would give you around 15 mins recording on 720p on 32gb card. Plus with the size of sensor and optics, im guessing you wont see quality increase above 3MB - 4MB/s and even that is asking alot of the camera due to the noise levels and lack of light/detail passing through the small plastic lens. As for stereo recording, I thought the Xoom only had 1 mic ?
Being that bluray movies are around 34MB/s.. I think asking a small plastic lens on the xoom to do that a little much. Also the tegra 2 is listed at only supporting 20Mb... did you also amend the codec maximum bitrate as its currently set to around 5MBs.. if not, you will actually be recording @ 5MB/s.. Also, is 35MB/s over the write limit for xoom internal storage.. I could be wrong but even a class 10 cards only write at around 10MBs and reads @ 30Mbs ?
If you want to try 60fps, you would also need to amend not just the recording values but the codec preference and possible the memCap too.. ive not tried it yet, may give it a go.
Im not trying to have a go at you, just stating that your filling your xoom up for no reason... in a long winded blurbing kind away.. not had my coffee yet..
As for the problem with front camera zooming in on 720p, nothing I can do about this, that fix would be above my head.. My guess is that the google camera apk would need amended for 16:9... my knowledge of Android goes as far as this little dirty hack.
Cheers
Bracken

bummer on the zoom and front face stretch problem... Gonna have to revert to stock unless fixed in the future... Will subscribe for updates in case. Nice for folks that don't mind those couple details though

rockhumper said:
bummer on the zoom and front face stretch problem... Gonna have to revert to stock unless fixed in the future... Will subscribe for updates in case. Nice for folks that don't mind those couple details though
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Hi, just revert to version 1, it keeps the front camera stock and rear camera is improved..
As for the people not being able zoom, you can't zoom in video mode using stock... well mines never has.
I wish I knew how to port the camera front the Samsung 10.1 tab, does any one know how?
Cheers
Bracken

HTC 10 Camera Video Recording and mkv.

Any way to change the .mkv recording to .mpg4 when shooting video with stock camera app? This is a PIA when trying to use Videos you've shot with other apps. I'd just roll with the Google Camera but there's no silent option that I've found.

You should disable " High res audio" to record in with a normal extention.

joeyzbg said:
You should disable " High res audio" to record in with a normal extention.
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You sir are a legend!!! Have you done any comparative testing by chance with the High Res on vs Off?

I just tested this and the High Res Audio isn't a gimmick. The **** is fire. If a person was shooting something that would edit later they want this. If a person was shooting clips or something for social media or something else they could pass and it is still great.

TheBrandonWRX said:
I just tested this and the High Res Audio isn't a gimmick. The **** is fire. If a person was shooting something that would edit later they want this. If a person was shooting clips or something for social media or something else they could pass and it is still great.
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He<y There, is there any chance to post somewhere a mkv recorded with the 10 in some loud clubs or something?
I am really trying to find out if it is better, or close even to the 4mics of the 950xl Lumia (distortion free audio recording)
Can you please go to a club and record some music ?

zimilaci said:
He<y There, is there any chance to post somewhere a mkv recorded with the 10 in some loud clubs or something?
I am really trying to find out if it is better, or close even to the 4mics of the 950xl Lumia (distortion free audio recording)
Can you please go to a club and record some music ?
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The only club I occupy is the gym lol but here is an album I uploaded with myself in the woods. There are multiple videos all recorded with High Res Audio. https://plus.google.com/+BrandonBuhler/posts/f5g3ndNXZve It picks up crazy detail in the ambient sounds. In some of the water shots I am quite a ways away but it's still awesome. I tested outside earlier and the main differences is that the back ground audio is clearer and more detailed. If I get out today in a crowded area I'll grab a few samples as comparison. I know it won't be the same as a loud club but it's probably the best I can do. :good:

This guy pretty much literally shoves the phone into the speaker grill, watch from 01:40
watch?v=McHnm9bQbmA

Hey, is there a chance to turn off the six minute limit? that would be amazing ... I got my HTC

zimilaci said:
Hey, is there a chance to turn off the six minute limit? that would be amazing ... I got my HTC
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Probably in the default.acc never checked for it but I do know other 4k video camera apps have unlimited time.

Ndaoud360 said:
Probably in the default.acc never checked for it but I do know other 4k video camera apps have unlimited time.
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it seems that if you go back to 1080P you won't have this limitation, only with 4k ...Well I can live with this...