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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:
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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
OK,I guess most experienced people would know about this,but still,here goes.
If you have a root browser(downloadable from play store),then you can edit the media_profiles.XML found in system/etc.
This can be edited to get your video recording from 640*480 @ 24fps to 720*480 @ 30 fps.(This is excellent for viewing on the wildfire S.)While technically higher resolutions and frame rates are possible,the stock Gingerbread camcorder app doesn't seem to list it in settings.Plus,higher frame rates don't work properly for me anyway.
So,here's how to do it :
In media_profiles.XML,under encoder profile high, change the width to 720,height to 480 and frame rate to 30.
(I'm not really sure about the following part,although no harm in trying.I'm just not sure whether this is really necessary).
Under each of the encoders below that (h264,h263,m4v) make the maximum height and width to anything you want above 720*480 and frame rate(if below 30) to 30.Max bitrates can be changed too,if you want.
I think its possible to change the camera encoding quality too,although for general day to day purposes,It's not too useful.
I'm open to any suggestions/Improvements if found.
Thanks for reading!
have u tried it??
kye04 said:
have u tried it??
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Well,yeah.I don't see how I could have known this otherwise.
Actualy on the stock 2.26 these values are 720/480/24 by default dunno what rom were you testing this at.
If you do it once,even if you completely reset it,it goes to 720*480/24.
Maybe it's an update by HTC,as initially it's supposed to be 640*480/24.
Anyway the main thing is changing the framerate to 30 fps.....really improves overall video recording.
Hi, does anybody know a good High-Speed camera app for the international Galaxy S (i9000)?
I'm running cm 10.0 and the stock camera app only does 30 fps no matter which resolution I set and I'm looking for sometihng more like 60 fps.
Any suggestions? Thanks
Our camera can reach up to 30 fps due to hardware limitation. I don't think that we can do something with an app.
ALESSIO94x said:
Our camera can reach up to 30 fps due to hardware limitation. I don't think that we can do something with an app.
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I used to have an old i900 Omnia and that did slow-mo videos at pretty low resolution but they looked cool, so I thought that if the hardware is not a problem for the Omnia, it won't be for the Galaxy either.
Try lgcamera
If someone help me i definitely HIT THANKS....
1Ishara said:
Try lgcamera
If someone help me i definitely HIT THANKS....
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Tried lgcamera before and the max fps I got was [email protected] 582x480 resolution despite having selected 60 fps in the settings menu, so I guess that doesn't work.
I don't really know about the FPs since i still don't know hot to do it
but i do experience this. when I used my CM 10.0 the camera is taking so much time to open, and inside the camera app (the stock one) the cam seems to be so heavy to run (I assume the fps would be 25 - 29) . but few days ago I changed my ROM into Xylon 0.2.1 (which is 4.2.2 rom) and the camera app is awesome. its not taking a lot of time to open and its much smoother than when i used my CM 10.0
I don't really know why but, this what i experienced.
OmEagle said:
I don't really know about the FPs since i still don't know hot to do it
but i do experience this. when I used my CM 10.0 the camera is taking so much time to open, and inside the camera app (the stock one) the cam seems to be so heavy to run (I assume the fps would be 25 - 29) . but few days ago I changed my ROM into Xylon 0.2.1 (which is 4.2.2 rom) and the camera app is awesome. its not taking a lot of time to open and its much smoother than when i used my CM 10.0
I don't really know why but, this what i experienced.
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Perhaps you should clear the data of the camera app or, if that doesn't work, try re-flashing.
Try Ultra Brust Camera
on the market...
galaxis9001 said:
Try Ultra Brust Camera
on the market...
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Ok, so I tried fast burst and ultra burst camera but they're rather useless, at about 10 pics a second they're almost 3 times slower than the stock camera app which takes around 25 frames in a second while recording video. Then I tried iMPlayer+ and played a 30 fps video in slow-motion, it didn't actually look that bad but I recon it would look way better with a video of 40-50 frames. So the problem still seems to be capturing at more than 30 fps for a video to look good in slow-motion playback.
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Ok, so I tried fast burst and ultra burst camera but they're rather useless, at about 10 pics a second they're almost 3 times slower than the stock camera app which takes around 25 frames in a second while recording video. Then I tried iMPlayer+ and played a 30 fps video in slow-motion, it didn't actually look that bad but I recon it would look way better with a video of 40-50 frames. So the problem still seems to be capturing at more than 30 fps for a video to look good in slow-motion playback.
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I had a wave 2 sometime ago and it had an option to record slow motion qvga at 120fps. Does i9000 GB stock have this, I don't remember.
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ts1506 said:
I had a wave 2 sometime ago and it had an option to record slow motion qvga at 120fps. Does i9000 GB stock have this, I don't remember.
Sent from my cyanogenized tab 10.1
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If "GB" means GingerBread than no, it doesn't have 120fps @qvga, I have cm10 on my i9000 and I came from GingerBread 2.3.4 and it didn't have any.
Hello, respected developers!
As the topics concerning camera app are slowly fading down, I start a new one here.
I tried both existing mods/apps of a 4.1 standard camera and a custom apps like lgCamera. Still I can't get 25 fps in recorded videos even when I set it to this particular value. I can get it when i use AxelVoyager in-car videorecorder, but it's quite buggy and not that common-to-operate and this setting must be applied manually every time before I start record.
I need this 25 fps setting because my other video recordings are in PAL (25 fps) and it's not a common task to convert fps correctly to match each other.
As far as I can understand with my many-years-ago-IT-background, this should not be a problem for an experienced person to compile a version of a standard camera app with pathced media profiles that have 25 instead of 30 fps in 1080p and 720p HD media-profiles. So I kindly ask for that.
Thanks.
hi,
is there any enhancement of third party app to fix or increase the fps of camera while video recording?
thanks...
adioph said:
hi,
is there any enhancement of third party app to fix or increase the fps of camera while video recording?
thanks...
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' forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/help/laggy-camcorders-bad-camera-t3719728/page3 '(Put https:// before the link)
Follow the instructions there and you will get rock-solid 30fps in video recording.
not working for me... but thanks anyway...
adioph said:
not working for me... but thanks anyway...
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What problem you are encountering? I can try to help you.
no error on me, but the fps i get is still 15fps, can't reach 30fps or higher...
adioph said:
no error on me, but the fps i get is still 15fps, can't reach 30fps or higher...
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You must have done some mistake while following the guide.set the exposure slider to little bit less than half and then point the camera to where frames becomes smooth,adjust slider more if required or set the iso to 3200 and then lock the exposure metering.Now after you start recording,frames may become laggy, slide the exposure bar little bit more and you will get 30 fps video.You have to do this thing once only.
just found out that using third party app, we can get 30fps video in camera...
Looks like we have to live with the third party things forever. Cheers Xiaomi for making such a great camera centric smartphone.
hahaha, Lol Xiaomi...
Xiaomi I don't know why has given slow mo 120 fps at 720 p and 1080 p at 60 fps. Even third party apps when used are limited to 30 fps on 1080 p. While using the same 3rd party app on redmi note 4 will give 1080 p at 60 fps. This is weird cause redmi note 4 has a much worse camera performance than mi a1 but has better hardware it seems.
Third party app I used was Moto camera.