I've been having problems recording video on my droid 1. It will record the video fine but when i play it back it looks distorted. It looks as though a portrait type ratio is stretched to fit landscape and vice versa when i rotate it.
I;ve had this problem on both PE v6.5 and Peter Alfonso's GPA builds.
The only time it seems to work ok is when I use an old froyo MIUI (1.3.11 to be exact)
I want to say its the actual video camera app that has the problem, but I'm not too sure. I tried downloading Qik Video Recorder and that seems to work ok, but id rather use the regular vid camera app.
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Just noticed today that when I play back videos I recorded on the HD that the "expand" button to make the video fullscreen has no effect. Then immediately went into the youtube app to test it there and same thing. Again cannot change the orientation. Seems to stuck the way it is.
Can anyone suggest anything?! Thank you for any help!
Hello! I installed the new firmware and I noticed that the video recording in HD is obscene.
First, the registration window is smaller than that which appears with a normal recording, and secondly, the recording is very jerky and, finally, the video does not play fluid.
It 's normal? It 's a problem of the new firmware? It also happens to others?
Thanks!
Working with the same FW as you, tested 720p High quality and works great.
Any issues?
No problem? Do not have a registration screen smaller? Yet it is smaller than the one you have with normal recording.
Not known of the shots when you move the phone?
Just tried it (n new firmware also) recording does seem a little stuttery - and the screen is smaller than when recording VGA - however - I never checked it on 720p before update so I don't know if it is different?!
fabbro76 said:
Hello! I installed the new firmware and I noticed that the video recording in HD is obscene.
First, the registration window is smaller than that which appears with a normal recording, and secondly, the recording is very jerky and, finally, the video does not play fluid.
It 's normal? It 's a problem of the new firmware? It also happens to others?
Thanks!
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The registration window is also smaller in the previous firmware... It's because of the video resolution... And I don't notice any slowing in the video... Cheers
I tested 720p High quality and works great too
Sorry to resurrect this thread but i've just had the same thing happen to me. The funny thing is - I updated and the video was working fine until today. I took some HD videos the other week and they were perfect.... now... same as was described here.
Did anyone find a fix for this?
Also - I'm on JJ6 firmware
Well, it looks like the folks at ooVoo have been listening to our feedback about the problems with the ooVoo app. Apparently, they have released a new version of the app and it works just fine....no more sideways image from the front-facing camera on the Tab. I installed the PC app on 2 different laptops and doing video chats between my Tab and the laptops worked great. The video windows at times, showed some pixelation and there was some occasional audio noise. You do have to keep the Tab in a portrait orientation, but that's no issue. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the results. Right now, everything is free so you can't lose.
Going to try to explain this... When I'm using the stock Camera app, the picture is normal. But when I switch to Camcorder, it seems to be automatically zoomed in quite a bit. And when I try to zoom out, it says that since I'm recording in HD, zoom functions are not available.
This is kind of annoying because now I have to step back probably 5 feet to fill the same frame of when I was taking photos.
Is this normal for everyone else too? Or do I have some weird glitch on my unrooted and pure stock ROM?
Yep, mine does it too (stock rom). It only does that in FullHD resolution. I guess the only use middle part of the sensor to read the data to achieve greater speeds, and thus it's gonna be a hardware limitation.
Who need HD anyway ? The lens hardly catch with it. I record 720x480 and I'm very pleased with teh quality.
Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.
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Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.
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Yeah I noticed that.
But that doesn't make sense. In photo mode, same resolution as video mode but in video mode it's zoomed in. Like Dr. Sid said, it seems that it uses a smaller section of the image sensor to capture video. Which again doesn't make sense. Weird.
This is definetly a speed optimization - scaling down the whole resolution of camera sensor from 3264*2448 -> 1080p is much more expensive operation than just cropping the central pixels, i assume someone at samsung was VERY lazy to have done the camcorder mode in such a lame way, it's still ok for recording outside scenes but useless for in-room recording.
I find this quite annoying also. At first I was wondering if it is a ROM glitch or something, since some of the people here stated that even in stock ROM it is present also.
I hope there is some kind of patch to this, full HD recording is really awesome and I hate to see the 'zoomed' effect.
Yeah noticed the same thing just last night.. Seems to also affect the camera's ability to focus properly in video capture mode as well... Shame on them, I wish I had noticed this sooner.
I used the vpn trick to update to android pie and have magisk installed. Everything works fine, 4g wifi etc. However, I noticed in the stock camera app video recording does not work. I can take pictures both on front and rear cam. When I enabled hyperlapse or slowmo, it can record video but never when those features are not enabled. I tried installing Open Camera from playstore (an opensource camera software) and tried to record video with that app but still nothing. It says "Failed to record video". I recently also enabled camera2api and installed gcam and it can take pictures but not record video. Weird thing is that I tried capturing video on Facebook Messenger and it worked. Video recording works on messenger but not on camera apps?? Did anyone experience this or is it just me?
Try to record video without audio in Open camera. If it works, download Cinema FV camera app and try different audio codec. It happened to me on Oreo, I couldn't find the reason. Once the full ROM has been released by Xiaomi, I reflashed it and video started to work in all apps again. Maybe something went wrong during OTA update, hard to tell. All I know is that it messed up with audio codecs and I had to use another as the default one to be able to record video with sound.
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Try to record video without audio in Open camera. If it works, download Cinema FV camera app and try different audio codec. It happened to me on Oreo, I couldn't find the reason. Once the full ROM has been released by Xiaomi, I reflashed it and video started to work in all apps again. Maybe something went wrong during OTA update, hard to tell. All I know is that it messed up with audio codecs and I had to use another as the default one to be able to record video with sound.
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Hmm you're right the problem is with the audio. I tried open camera and disabled audio and it worked. I also followed your suggestion and installed cinema fv camera app and tried all the different codecs but it still doesn't work. It works though if I disable audio completely. Maybe I'll just wait for the new security patch to come.
I just found my old post, this codec in Cinema FV worked for me when I had the recording issue - "AAC-ELD".