Is there a way to close the camera with a hard button? The ok button just switches to the today screen. I want to use the camera without touching the screen...
Is there any alternate software that can use the camera?
Is there a way to record in avi format?
Is the CIF resolution a hardware limitation (sensor/processor) or just software?
I'd like to be able to record on NTSC (640x480) or PAL (720x576) resolution.
Thanks in advance
n0t said:
I'd like to be able to record on NTSC (640x480) or PAL (720x576) resolution.
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Why do you limit yourself like this? Your goal should be 720p or 1080p resolutions... Sky is the limit.
To be more realistic, if only we could manage 25 fps with high bitrate that would be great. You can read this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=288995
HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P2\MainCamSupportCapSize = dword:0x0A (10)
change to dword:0x3A (58) and you will have Large & CIF resolutions.
Dmitry
can u explain better how to do it because when i go in i cant change the dword value and its # is 10 for me
bwxd said:
can u explain better how to do it because when i go in i cant change the dword value and its # is 10 for me
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Use any registry editor (like Resco Registry Editor or PHM Registry editor) and going to the HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P2\MainCamSupportCapSize . Default value is 10 decimal (0xA hex). Change value to 58 decimal (0x3A hex).
I modified the registry for these values and it does seem to increase the quality but not the image size of the pictures or video.
f00dl3 said:
I modified the registry for these values and it does seem to increase the quality but not the image size of the pictures or video.
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After registry patch the L & CIF resolutions will be available in video camera mode. Try to click on resolution icon on top bar or select it in options.
the new resolutions are
L = 320x240
CIF = 352x288
which are much better than
S = 128x96
M = 176x144
thanks for the info
i made the edit and it enabled the two resolutions in the options, but when i actually tried to take a video with those settings (either large or CIF) it came out as the same low resolution it normally does, but the video quality is even worse (very choppy). is there a way to get around this?
hamstarz said:
i made the edit and it enabled the two resolutions in the options, but when i actually tried to take a video with those settings (either large or CIF) it came out as the same low resolution it normally does, but the video quality is even worse (very choppy). is there a way to get around this?
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No problem. HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\Bitrate
default value 128000. I chaged it to 1024000 and now video quality is better.
hey, thanks for the reply...did what you said, and picture quality is better, but video is still very choppy and still much below the framerate id get while recording in medium. id be happy if I can just get it up to 15 frames per sec at this quality.
MJPEG @ 15FPS seems to be the sweet spot with Dmitri's tweak
Thanks for this tweak Dmitry! After spending few hours testing various settings, I found that using MJPEG @ 15 FPS got me the best results in both visual quality and framerate consistency (FPS for MJPEG can be set under Recparam\AVILarge although 15FPS is the default, if I recall right). Anything higher than 15-20 FPS with high motion videos will result in erratic captures.
Note also that you'll want a fat MicroSD card to store MJPEG videos as these can become large fairly quickly.
This is an amazing reg tweak, i knew it was a matter of time before this leaked out. This camera is more powerful than whats let on and i know it
Now if only we can get some frame rate tweaks in here that work
Well I actually got the frame rate to not be so choppy by just changing HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\FrameRate to 5 Hell you may even be able to go lower. Because that's all I kept doin an it just seemed to get better each time I lowered it.
Changing the framerate to 5FPS for Mpeg4 yields horrible playback results. It's not even worth taking videos with the setting at 5 because of the slow, jerky movements.
--James
xtreme929 said:
Well I actually got the frame rate to not be so choppy by just changing HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\FrameRate to 5 Hell you may even be able to go lower. Because that's all I kept doin an it just seemed to get better each time I lowered it.
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5 frames per second? That is REALLY choppy, maybe you meant 15?
i've done some testing and it seems like mpg4 just uses too much processing power to do the compression and that motion jpeg (AVI) at 15fps yields pretty good results. will try and do some more testing and report back.
robbyroy;1548515 said:
i've done some testing and it seems like mpg4 just uses too much processing power to do the compression and that motion jpeg (AVI) at 15fps yields pretty good results. will try and do some more testing and report back.
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my only problem with using motion jpg is that audio stream format doesnt work with tcpmp, so all my beautiful movie automaticly become silent films out side pocket media player
help
I messup. I changed the maincamsupportcaptsize and dont remeber the org setting. the 2nd problem is that i could not add change to dword:0x3A (58) it would only let me change from 8 to 58 but not the 0X3a?
Not sure if changing this messed up my MMS but I haven't changed any other feature. Right now after doing this hack, my MMS won't send out, giving me an error that says my image size of 16k or whatever is over the 0k limit?
Reseting to default
thanks for the info but I have tried that reg hack and it will stay at 58 until i launch the camera/camcorder function then i go back in and it is back at 10. don't know if i need to soft reset before i launch cam? any help would be a appreciated.
phatstud said:
Not sure if changing this messed up my MMS but I haven't changed any other feature. Right now after doing this hack, my MMS won't send out, giving me an error that says my image size of 16k or whatever is over the 0k limit?
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Same thing happened to me. Just uninstall your mms and re install it. It will work.
Hi there,
Has anyone an idea how to set the Milestone Camera to shoot WIDEscreen pictures? Lower as the 5MP Resolution 2592x1936 >>> 2592x1555 (Widescreen).
I tried to edit the /data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs/com.android.camera_preferences.xml
But everytime the Camera starts, it sets the resolution back to 2592x1936...
Can anyone help?
How can I get to camera settings? i took video and uploaded it to Youtube and saw that the highest resolution was 420p. This phone advertises 720p quality. I cannot find how to set it to 720p. Has this happened to anyone else?
When you are in the camcorder, the last setting on the right side of the capture screen, change that to HD(30m).
Thank you, I have no idea how I did not see that!
could it be the app converted it if you actually used the hd 30m
Much appreciated if anyone can tell me what I need to do to be able to change the bitrate setting in media_profiles.xml under /system/etc. I have root but it won't let me save the new value into the file.
I would like to be able to record at lower bitrate since the file size in 1080p and 720p are so huge. Looks like the max bit rate is up to 20mbit/s. default for 1080p is 17mb and 720p is 12. I want to lower to 4mb for 1080p and 2 mb for 720p and see what the quality is like.
If anyone knows of a better way plz let me know. thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/mod-increase-camera-audio-video-image-t2039553
Changed the settings on my media_profiles.xml but it still doesn't record at different bitrate. Much appreciated if anyone can help or have been able to change their recording bitrate. Is there something else different regarding the samsung s4 cam settting?
Anyone? much appreciated. thanks