I have a HUAWEI g300, and while the quality of still images taken with the camera are great, video quality is awful. Or, to be more specific, the audio that goes with the video is very poor.
I believe that this may be due to the file format of the video.
For this reason, I would be interested to know whether there are any ways to change the file format which videos are recorded in. Are there any alternative camera apps that are any good, which ideally allow the user to select their own file format? My device is rooted btw.
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Is there a way to record video in a codec other than 3gp? Or is there an app that anyone knows of that will allow you to record video in different formats like .avi .mp4
I was pleased to find that the camera for the froyo 2.2 build that eugene made shoots in the same HD aspect ratio as the 2.1 build but formats to MP4
also there are many encoding programs that work well. I am presently using Oxelon Media Converter to convert to AVI for editing in Premier and posting video on youtube in 720HD
Yeah I can convert them but I'd like to avoid having to add the extra step. I might have to check out that Rom if I no one else has any other solutions.
Recording in 720p eats up way too much memory. I believe it has to do with its codec (3gp). My sony camcorder can record in 1080p and eat up way less memory than my vibrant. Is there any app that will give more video codec features we can choose from?
Not sure what you mean. I recorded in 1080p at the Falcon's game last Sunday and had well over an hour worth of time to record. Not bad for a phone IMHO.
I meant that the vibrant phone camcorder records in 720p and eats up too much memory than a regular hd home camcorder would. A 10 minute video recorded from the vibrant takes up more than 700mb while a 1080p video recorded from my sony home camcorder takes up less than half of that. I think it has to do with the video format of the vibrant. I wonder if there is an app that can allow us to choose another video format other than 3gp to record with.
you cannot change the codec, and just so you know that 3gpp is just the container that holds the video but the video can be MGEP-4(XVID/DVIX) or H264 or many others. But our phones only record in H264 video and AAC audio and contain it in the 3GPP file. What I do is send my videos to youtube immediately so that they are cleared off my phone and youtube will convert them to a better H264 format and the MP4 container. So as of now you cannot change the quality of the camcorder and make it record a lesser video file.
Guess you just have to keep in mind that its a phone first, camcorder second. That's why you own a camcorder in the first place. You wouldn't expect your camcorder to get better calls than your phone would you?
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Guess you just have to keep in mind that its a phone first, camcorder second. That's why you own a camcorder in the first place. You wouldn't expect your camcorder to get better calls than your phone would you?
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I do agree that it is a phone first, but in todays world of digital everything it is nice to shed as much as you can and have an all in one device. I for one don't want to carry around a digital camera, camcorder and phone, so I picked the one that did the best of all three.
As for running out of memory there is a 32gig SD card option until someone can hack the codec to allow tweaking of the compression ratio, then again the CPU in the phone might not be able to keep up with the video being taken if it has to work to hard to compress the video more.
Not to hard to copy the files off the phone to your PC and covert away.
I believe I read that froyo firmwares record more efficiently in the MP4 container
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I believe I read that froyo firmwares record more efficiently in the MP4 container
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that doesn't really make any sense. the video doesn't get put into a final true container until its done recording, its just a temp file while its doing it, and video containers dont affect quality, just playback
I know what you mean, but I believe they improved the quality as well as changing the container.
hey guys.
is either photo format better than the other? my tv unfortunately can't reproduce either .mpo or .jps, but i wonder if either one can give a better image simply because it'll compress less or something.
what about video format? I would assume .mp4 is a better format? my tv thankfully plays both formats just fine, so i've been watching my videos on it. i can't tell a difference between a format and the other, but haven't done extensive comparisons yet.
any other suggestions on how to get the best image quality for pictures and/or videos on this phone are welcome
I really wouldn't say there is a best format... would really depend on the device you are viewing on.
But I put Inception in 3D on my phone. Was a MP4 file but .m4v extension.
I've switched to using .jps as my standard 3D image format, because when viewed in a standard image viewer on a non-3D setup it displays as two side-by-side images (whereas .mpo simply won't display in most 2D image viewers).
I haven't noticed any difference between the image quality of the two formats.
thanks for the info. i'll use .jps and .mp4 then. hopefully samsung will update the firmware to support either photo format soon
Hi to all. I have a video done with MiniCM7 and X10 mini pro. When i was recording, the Camera app crashed and now the video doesn't play. How to recover it? I tried with HD Video Repair Utility and hex editor (to insert index values) but doesn't work. The video is big 138MB.
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I'm not sure you can, all the relevant information is only written to the file when you stop recording, right now you only have raw streams.
Don't know if it's possible to extract the raw video and audio streams, and use them in a video editor. I usually use AviDemux to tinker with video.
I tried with avidemux but nothing... Do you know some program who take raw video data and transform it in mp4?
Maybe try feeding it into VLC player, if that can't handle it i don't think there's anything that can, but i must honestly say i don't have high hopes for your file.
VLC doesn't play the file... then, can i delete the file???
That is up to you to decide I wouldn't think it's worth keeping around if you can do nothing with it, but then, maybe the content has some meaning for you and someone someday may find a solution...
So as you know, the stock video player has this feature which plays short clips of all the videos you have. This is great and all, but I find that when I insert my sd card which contains lots of mkv videos, it causes a horrible lag when opening the video player. I assume it's because the phone takes a while to generate previews for the mkv files, since it doesn't happen when I insert another sd card that contains just as many videos, but in other formats.
So, my question is, is there a way to disable the video preview? Like maybe editing a text file somewhere?
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