I asked this question over at AndroidForums as well. I was referred to here...
I am running CM6 and am currently using the camcorder which comes stock with CM6.
I have an application called HiFiCorder which records audio amazingly well (up to 320k). It sounds excellent. This means that the phone is, in fact, capable of recording high quality audio. WHY does the camcorder app record audio so terribly? Is there a camcorder app out there which records video very well and audio at a bitrate above 192k?? Does anyone here want to build one?
I read a post on here saying to use the Justin.tv app, but that sounds like more hassle than there needs to be.
Thanks.
No one has an answer?
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Anyone know of or have any thoughts of an external microphone to attach to Tilt which will allow one to record higher quality audio?! At school i do a lot of recording and lugging around my comp to record little sessions gets old. Being able to on the ol' tilt would be so awesome!
Looking forward to hearing input,
Ti
Recording Mics
Hello Ti,
Have you thought about using the built in microphone or some kind of bluetooth microphone/Headset with the notes app's ability to record? Not so sure if the quality of the recordings would be that great, but it's worth a shot. You can use the notes app to record by going to the overview/all notes screen and selecting "show recording toolbar" then recording until you hit the stop button on the toolbar. I believe you can also improve the quality of your recordings by going to Settings>Personal Tab>Input>Options Tab>Voice Recording Format, however it will expand the size of your recording files. Hope this helps,
Dave
If you need something small, easy and good quality to record audio, get one of those:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Zoom-H2-Handy-R...6827883QQihZ012QQcategoryZ15199QQcmdZViewItem
Guys, I use sometimes the youtube app from Google.
Apparently this is easy and efficient application,
BUT it results in quite poor videos quality.
What is strange, on videos of X2 the video gets fullscreen and better quality there.
Is there any way to increase the videos quality on X1 form this native app??
The video quality automatically increases if you use wifi, but its not much of a quality boost. I hope Google issues a Youtube update with higher quality codecs enabled.
emuneee said:
The video quality automatically increases if you use wifi, but its not much of a quality boost. I hope Google issues a Youtube update with higher quality codecs enabled.
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ok, I see...
Well, strange that on X2 the videos look very good.
Maybe it's an an optimised version of this app?
n00b here. Recording a video with the audio at only 8000 Hz sounds like your camera is in a toilet. Are there any 3rd party camera apps that can do 16000 Hz, or maybe a hack for the default app?
I can successfully change bitrate and resolution for video encoding in build.prop, but changing any values for the audio just causes the camera app to force close. Failing at that, I looked up the AMRNB codec and found that it doesn't support 16000 Hz at all anyway. My next misguided idea was to change the default codec stuff from this
Code:
ro.media.enc.hprof.codec.aud=amrnb
...
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.bps=12200
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.hz=8000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.ch=1
to AAC, like it is in the Droid/Milestone
Code:
ro.media.enc.hprof.codec.aud=aac
...
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.bps=96000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.hz=16000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.ch=1
I realize they are different phones, but I figured it was worth a shot. Failed again, naturally.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Why did HTC give us DVD resolution video with only telephone quality audio? That's like having an HDTV with only a piezo buzzer for a sound system. I do not understand this decision at all.
+1
I have noticed this as well, but I assumed it was a hardware restriction.
If there can be any light shed on this let us know!
Really good idea. I was thinking of adjusting the frame rate so that it always remained at a constant 24 fps, rather than going down to 9 fps in indoor conditions. Any suggestions?
gsmsosv said:
n00b here. Recording a video with the audio at only 8000 Hz sounds like your camera is in a toilet. Are there any 3rd party camera apps that can do 16000 Hz, or maybe a hack for the default app?
I can successfully change bitrate and resolution for video encoding in build.prop, but changing any values for the audio just causes the camera app to force close. Failing at that, I looked up the AMRNB codec and found that it doesn't support 16000 Hz at all anyway. My next misguided idea was to change the default codec stuff from this
Code:
ro.media.enc.hprof.codec.aud=amrnb
...
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.bps=12200
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.hz=8000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.ch=1
to AAC, like it is in the Droid/Milestone
Code:
ro.media.enc.hprof.codec.aud=aac
...
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.bps=96000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.hz=16000
ro.media.enc.hprof.aud.ch=1
I realize they are different phones, but I figured it was worth a shot. Failed again, naturally.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Why did HTC give us DVD resolution video with only telephone quality audio? That's like having an HDTV with only a piezo buzzer for a sound system. I do not understand this decision at all.
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YES!
I agree 100%. Maybe the idea was to create a suitable MMS birate/container solution w/ no regard to ANYONE else... there has to be a way. in fact I'm excited that you were able to at least play w/ the video and adjust bitrate & res. Care to share how to a layman?
AMR sounds like garbage. In addition to the incredibly low samling frequency, the bitrate is ~ 12.5Kbps. I would say that's a cut below telephone SQ.
Can any people in here far smarter than me, tell us if one can hackney a difference audio codec (say mp3?) as AMR seems too limited to work with. Or maybe a 3rd party app... why are there NONE?
this seems to make it seem possible:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/CamcorderProfile.html
I would really love this on my Desire. Currently both video and audio are crap, audio especially. Here's a little demonstration I made, where I went to see which encoding type is better, mpeg4 or H.264:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgW28VE0eOo
justin.tv app mitigates this for now, as the video uploaded to justin.tv in near realtime is markedly better than the abysmal quality of the native android app, which just goes to show how dysfunctional it really is.
for now, I'll use justin.tv whenever recording videos... it goes to show that many android phones (inc. my hero) are capable of so much more in the hardware, and the limiting factor is crappy software devs and/or requirements.
Anyone knows a camera mod compatible with gr5? stock camera did a lot of FCs and I installed andy's cam mod and video sound is out of sync. Photos aren´t good at all. Thanks
Yes, i used AndiCP's mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17691525
Very good, but i switched to CM7 Kang now, much faster ROM(s) but camera not so good =/
I'm using AndiCP cam but whatching recorded videos 1080p on the tv (via HDMI) audio is out of sync...
Audio out of sync
richicru said:
I'm using AndiCP cam but whatching recorded videos 1080p on the tv (via HDMI) audio is out of sync...
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that's the one anoing problem that i found on every camera mod, audio is out of sync.
Audio out of sync is mainly because of slow sdcard. Try record to INTERNAL memory and see if it is still out of sync.
And sometimes the audio out of sync is only when you play video in the phone. If you transfer to PC and play.. sometimes it is synced. But most of the time it is because of slow sdcard.
Cheers!
Hi,
I'm having a problem with video recorder in CM7.2 on my Galaxy Mini. On stock rom it was recording with quite good fps, but on cm7.2 it records in 9fps only. Is there any update for it or a way to replace the cm7.2 camera app to other camera app, that records in decent frame rate?
BTW. It's my first post on this forum, so hi everyone
you can try lg camera
Ok, but could you please tell me, how to do that, and where can I get lg camera?
its an app just search for it
I've managed to download this app, but even if I switch recording to 30fps (higher value is not supported and app says, that cannot record video) it doesn't fix my problem... Maybe there is another way?
Have you tried looking into your camera settings?
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In default CM7.2 camcorder there are no options to tweak video recording, settings are only for photo and there are no options for camcorder...
EDIT: Video quality is set to high
EDIT2: I've also tried MIUI camera for CM7 and it also records in low fps