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take 720p video?

is the tp2 able to take 720p video? im sure the camera can handle it. the resolution is high enough. is the hardware good enough to support taking it?
i dont see why it cant be done since there is a panorama tweek to increase the resolution. so is there something to just edit in the registry?

That is 3 times as many pixels, so I doubt it has the power to encode that in real time. It has its hands full just decoding a 480p MP4 for playback.

Wow I don't know... I mean.... reall...ahh... seriously?
Answer is just NO, not possible.
The reason panorama hack works is that you take many pictures and stitch them together resulting in a higher resolution image than the camera can take.
Same thing as taking multiple printed photos, arranging them to align on your desk and taping them together. You can make a poster bigger than what your printer can print on one single page.
Rhodium can't even take a proper video at full resolution. The processing power is just not there. I mean use your brain. It takes couple seconds just take a picture. And videos coming out of the phone are way lower res & compressed like hell. The sensor and lens could get better video, but shooting so many frames a second it just does not have the power to process that video. Technically it would be possible to shoot some kind of raw image sequence, but then I am confident the speed of memory and saving to the card would not handle the amount of images taken.
But what are you thinking making threads like this? Did you think for a second? I get not understanding technical things. But you think developers, users and HTC themselves would not do it if it was possible? WTF

Nimajus said:
Wow I don't know... I mean.... reall...ahh... seriously?
Answer is just NO, not possible.
The reason panorama hack works is that you take many pictures and stitch them together resulting in a higher resolution image than the camera can take.
Same thing as taking multiple printed photos, arranging them to align on your desk and taping them together. You can make a poster bigger than what your printer can print on one single page.
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Oh come on... he was just asking!!! That said.. DK... google might have been your best friend. You would see that the resolution for taking a HD video just isnt possible. Everything that Nimajus said was spot on... just not possible.

dkdontforget said:
so is there something to just edit in the registry?
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Yup, it's right next to the registry setting to enable the Core i7 co-processor and radioisotope battery.
Damn HTC and their crappy defaults.

MooGoo said:
Yup, it's right next to the registry setting to enable the Core i7 co-processor and radioisotope battery.
Damn HTC and their crappy defaults.
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If you set the dinoset value to "1," you're phone will also turn into a dinosaur.

Don't worry, the Touch Pro 3 is going to look like this
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T-rex in F-16 > Snapdragon

"Force GPU Rendering" in Development options

Hi all,
Noticed the "Force GPU rendering" option under the Developer options which was off by default but is captioned "Use 2D hardware acceleration in applications". Is this advantageous to turn on? The few online resources I've found suggest it could be because it offloads all 2D graphics work onto the GPU instead of CPU. Having turned it on and played a bit I /might/ have noticed some more fluid animation, but could be a placebo effect.
Also, reckon this would have any impact on the battery life? (Desperately looking for ways to make this thing last through a day).
Thanks!

It forces all apps to use the GPU to render themselves instead of using the CPU. This is more efficient and actually does improve the fluidity of the UI. To test it out, download the Twitter App from the marketplace. Try with and without Hardware acceleration. You should notice a definite improvement. My suggestion is to keep this option on. After Apps update themselves to use GPU rendering themselves (it's only one line of XML code) this option will be pointless. The option is already pointless for Google Apps, as they should all be updated already to use GPU rendering.

Sweet. Anyone try running benchmark apps with it on? I'm trying to figure out if the SGSII hardware acceleration played any tricks on their benchmark scores (I've always wondered).

Knew I was noticing some improvement in apps, including Twitter!
I have noticed a couple of apps so far that this option breaks:
Vouchercloud (doesn't display anything on screen)
Tiny Tower (crashes during load)
So beware, if you have this on and some apps crash or display strangely, try turning it off.
I'll be keeping it on unless I need to use one of those two apps though.
Thanks for the full explanation.

Amazing tip, thanks! I loaded Twitter and noticed it was slow, then I remembered reading this thread before (read so many whilst waiting for it to be delivered) and tried it with this option turned on and it was perfectly smooth.
Cheers

rikbrown said:
Knew I was noticing some improvement in apps, including Twitter!
I have noticed a couple of apps so far that this option breaks:
Vouchercloud (doesn't display anything on screen)
Tiny Tower (crashes during load)
So beware, if you have this on and some apps crash or display strangely, try turning it off.
I'll be keeping it on unless I need to use one of those two apps though.
Thanks for the full explanation.
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That's a perfect example of why they didn't set it to default ON. If developers had actually followed the API there would be no problem but some seem to use a known side-effect of the old rendering model to skip some lines of codes for screen redraws. Google explained this in a Google IO talk.

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With Force Mode:
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I've noticed also shazam and radiant also break when using the 2D accel option.
Slightly annoying you can't set up a blacklist - but we'll see how quickly these get updated.

Also crashes:
Square
PicSay Pro
Shazam works for me
Perhaps I'll make a new post so that we can compile a list of apps which have trouble when Force GPR rendering is turned on.

For quadrant it seems to be give and take with the option forced on.
This is my Nexus S w/ CM ICS, GlaDOS kernel. Pics captured on 2nd run, after consecutive runs.
You can tell which had 2D hardware rendering forced by the 2D scores on the bottom.

An ongoing list is over at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372007

[APP] Wondershare PowerCam [1.6+]

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GET THIS AMAZING APP HERE
Interface
When you launch the app, you get a menu system that lets you choose
one of four options: capture, gallery, collage and share. Diving into each,
the UI is generally what you'd expect. The buttons are self-explanatory,
and you get a regular phone camera-style viewfinder.
Filters
PowerCam offers a decent set of filters, most of which are a bit too over-the-top
for my own taste. You get a standard set of minor filters to lightly tweak the coloring
of the scene that are quite nice, but the rest are a bit out there and I really don't
see many people using them. For the ones that I liked, it seemed to work well enough.
It should also be noted that there is a "no filter" mode for when you have the app open
and want a "regular" shot.
Tilt-Shift
The tilt-shift method, if you're not familiar, is something usually accomplished with
a special camera lens to produce interestingly focused images. The main subject
is sharply in focus, and everything else is quickly out of focus right next to it.
On a smartphone, its all done in post-processing. PowerCam seems to do a pretty
good job, and you can really get some good shots if you spend some time with it.
Panorama
I was surprised by the panorama quality. Using the app on my Galaxy Nexus,
it captured them more consistently and much quicker than the built-in panorama
feature of the Android 4.x camera.
Collages
Something that's going to be very user-dependent is the collage feature.
You can select several pictures you've taken and form them into framed multi-shot pictures.
The UI is friendly enough, just select from your picture list which ones you want,
and it'll arrange them randomly with a frame. You can shuffle the pictures around
and select the frame style, but I was hard-pressed to find frames that I actually enjoyed.
Sharing
PowerCam has built-in sharing functionality to Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
Wish that it would use a regular sharing menu and let you use other apps (like Google+),
but it doesn't really matter, as you can share from your Gallery app to anything installed
on your phone after the fact.
COURTESY OF ANDROID CENTRAL

Why does the shutter button look like the one on iPhone? In fact, why bother making an Android camera app that completely rips off the iphone camera app's interface?

holyevilcow said:
Why does the shutter button look like the one on iPhone? In fact, why bother making an Android camera app that completely rips off the iphone camera app's interface?
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I did not make the app i am simply sharing it
im what Willis was talking about

thanks for share.

Camera is not taking pictures when in small resolution just some lines. I read reviews on Play Store and most of S3 users have this problem. Not worted to download for our devices antill they fix this

yup this is no good on the s3

all im getting is blurry lines as pictures. crap

doesnt work for me either. nothing but lines..

Dont know why you guys are getting that it seems fine here
im what Willis was talking about

sharingan92 said:
Dont know why you guys are getting that it seems fine here
im what Willis was talking about
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I see that you have an international S3 ...the difference may come from here as i dont have the international version and i have some lines at small resolution !

[Q] How for slow motion video on G3?

Hi I can not find how to use slow motion video, its possible in all resolutions on video? Thanks

galaxymen said:
Hi I can not find how to use slow motion video, its possible in all resolutions on video? Thanks
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See this thread below for the answer.
[Q] Slow motion videos in cloudy g3
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Playback speed doesn't seem to be integrated into the stock G3 "Videos" app. Anyone have alternatives to play 60FPS at 30FPS?

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galaxymen said:
Hi I can not find how to use slow motion video, its possible in all resolutions on video? Thanks
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Hi...were you able to get to playback the slow motion video?? I too have the same problem. When I playback the video taken in slow motion mode, it just plays at regular speed. There are posts suggesting to tap of the menu button and alter the speed, but I dont have a menu button option. During playback if I touch the screen, all that comes on are the pause, forward and reverse buttons, and the home buttons..
Somebody please help...LG was not of much help

Unless I'm mistaken, slow motion video only works un the default videos app. Playing it elsewhere makes it play in normal speed.

Hi...were you able to get to playback the slow motion video?? I too have the same problem. When I playback the video taken in slow motion mode, it just plays at regular speed. There are posts suggesting to tap of the menu button and alter the speed, but I dont have a menu button option. During playback if I touch the screen, all that comes on are the pause, forward and reverse buttons, and the home buttons..
Well, I've read that you can play slow mo videos in apps like VLC and Media Player Classic. You can test it and tell me if it true or not. I'm not sure enough.

WavedGone said:
Hi...were you able to get to playback the slow motion video?? I too have the same problem. When I playback the video taken in slow motion mode, it just plays at regular speed. There are posts suggesting to tap of the menu button and alter the speed, but I dont have a menu button option. During playback if I touch the screen, all that comes on are the pause, forward and reverse buttons, and the home buttons..
Well, I've read that you can play slow mo videos in apps like VLC and Media Player Classic. You can test it and tell me if it true or not. I'm not sure enough.
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Old thread but for the benefit of anyone who will be finding this thread when searching for answers...
There's no such things as "slow motion videos"... conceptually yes, there is, but technically no. What you get when filming in "slow motion video" is a 120fps (frames per second) video. When playing this clip in the stock player, what it does is, it detects the frame rate to be 120fps and automatically play the clip at 1/8th of its speed, which gives you a 30fps slow-mo video.
Any player *could* play a clip in slo-mo as long as it has the feature to slow down playback implemented. Heck, you could even play a regular full HD 30fps video in slo-mo, although it would look a lot more blurry since you only have 30fps to work with.
VLC does indeed let you slow down playback...

Video recorded and played with MPC or VLC in Windows 10 is showed face down

Video recorded and played with MPC or VLC in Windows 10 is showed face down. Some articles talks about the issue of the camera position, but I don't know that the file stored contains the video rotated.
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Do you record your videos,using the stock camera app?
Inviato dal mio Nexus 5X utilizzando Tapatalk

(THE REAL) Neo said:
Do you record your videos,using the stock camera app?
Inviato dal mio Nexus 5X utilizzando Tapatalk
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Yes, with the Google Camera App that comes with the Phone. The record was in UHD quality, I don't test it with 1080p but I think that the result will be the same.

known issue for a while now..
Pure stupidity on google/LGs part. they placed the camera image sensor against the android specs recommendation.
Now the software must be updated to fix it.
This impacts many apps (eg: bank apps which scan check images, bar-code scanners, qr code readers.. etc)........
The IRONY is .. most of the third party apps have now been updated and they fix this issue. However, GOOGLE.... hasn't yet fixed the native camera app. they are busy preaching developers of other apps to fix the problem.. Crazy, but true. Sucks.

I'm having the same problem videos looks fine played ba"k on phone & when copied to Pc & playednon Windows media player & latest vlc, older vlc & video editing software show the true orientation, upside down & copy to a flash drive & plug into tv & also upside-down. I have checked the video meta data & the rotation is 180 so that software can rotate to display correct way up.
I guess most users won't be aware of this fault as they just playback on there phones..
Does anyone know if Google is working on a fix.
This is a massive fault as you cannot change the orientation afterwards so all my 4k Christmas videos can never be transferred to a USB stick & played on 4k tv.

To stop nexus 5x recording upside-down videos you Have to hold the phone left handed then videos are correct way up.
Hope Google fix this as most people are right handed, anyway you should be able to hold the phone anyway you want.