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Bootleg Recording Apps?

I'm looking for people that have experience using the Wizard for recording concerts and things of that sort.
I found quite a few threads on recording phone calls and such, but that's not what I'm looking for.
I plan to attend a few concerts this summer and I want to try to record a few of them renegade style. I'm wondering who else has tried this? Your success stories, failures. What apps you've tried? Recording quality etc.
Any help would be appreciated.

try Vito sound explorer
dunno if its "freeware" or not, but i like it

Bumping in hopes to get some more insight on this topic.

Are there no applications that do this? I am a bass player, and I really would like to record my gigs on my phone.

Poor Youtube Video Quality with Hero

Today at Sprint store I played the same YouTube video on the Hero and the Pre side by side. The Pre looked great, the Hero had a very low frame rate and poor resolution. I hope someone can tell me something was wrong with the Hero and it is not always like this.
I am seriously considering buying a Hero and have been spending a lot of time at my local Sprint story getting to know it. Today I was trying out flash video on many sites and they all looked bad like I described above. I just assumed the videos had a poor source until I tried a YouTube video on the Pre. It is hard to believe all the reviews I have been seeing of the Hero wouldn't have hammered it for this if it were a common problem.

maybe the reviews didn't hammer it since at the time the choice was 'average flash performance' vs 'no flash at all'... I always watch youtube vids in the You Tube app which plays them smooth as silk, even in HD (with the occasional flutter)
If the need for smooth Flash animations takes precedence over the 1001 other unbelievably high quality aspects of the HTC Hero, then you should probably just buy a Pre like all the other dorks...

The quality of the video on the actual YouTube app is way superior to that you will get going onto the main site via the browser and the HTC Flash player.
Regards,
Dave

I'm not sure if the YouTube app chooses the video quality for you or not based on your connection. But, if the video starts off on low quality, just hit the menu button, choose "more" on the pop-up menu, and then select High Quality. It's crystal clear after that.

Thanks for the replies. I will try to get back to the Sprint store today and try out the video quality options.
How do I know if the video is playing in the YouTube app or not? The video I tried played full screen. Must I navigate there from a separate app than the browser?
Erik

it is true, i did not know that. I usually watched videos through the site. Tried the youtube app on my hero and it is indeed crystal clear. Cool

erikcave said:
Thanks for the replies. I will try to get back to the Sprint store today and try out the video quality options.
How do I know if the video is playing in the YouTube app or not? The video I tried played full screen. Must I navigate there from a separate app than the browser?
Erik
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It is a physically separate app from which you can search/view Youtube videos. It came preloaded on my GSM Hero, so I assume it's still on the Sprint Hero.
If you go to Youtube via the browser, it launches the HTC Flash Player when you try to view a video, and this is quite poor! Thinking about it, I think on the G1 if you were on YouTube in a browser, it would launch any videos via the Youtube app (since it doesn't have a flash player).
Regards,
Dave

It seems the phone should be smart enough to know you are loading YouTube videos and load the YouTube player instead of the HTC Flash Player.

erikcave said:
It seems the phone should be smart enough to know you are loading YouTube videos and load the YouTube player instead of the HTC Flash Player.
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I think the "idea" is that if you have flash, you don't need the YouTube app. Sadly, it's a bad idea!
Regards,
Dave

bboydru said:
I'm not sure if the YouTube app chooses the video quality for you or not based on your connection. But, if the video starts off on low quality, just hit the menu button, choose "more" on the pop-up menu, and then select High Quality. It's crystal clear after that.
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exactly what I do and the quality is awesome, suck that the app wont allow you to choose HD for all videos.

Good advice in this thread and I would like too add I do not miss it Pre one bit. That device has some serious flaws not likely to be addressed for another year. Namely its weak SDK, lack of deep system / hardware access and lack of GPU support. The Pre can't use its own hardware properly much less the lack of options in all of the OS.

Vertig0 said:
exactly what I do and the quality is awesome, suck that the app wont allow you to choose HD for all videos.
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Wait, are you saying you have to do tell it to play high quality every time? That would suck indeed, and would be a serious oversight in functionality.

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Wait, are you saying you have to do tell it to play high quality every time? That would suck indeed, and would be a serious oversight in functionality.
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Yes you do unless on WiFi. Then I think it automatically goes into high quality mode

Pre vs and youtube
I stoped by a Bell to try a Pre and compared it to my HTC touch on same Bell network, yes picture was great on Pre but it was slow, in fact I gave up waiting for it to load some video as my touch was playing them in half the time. Today at work we had my touch on bell a Touch 2 Pro on Telus and a iPhone on rogers, all playing the same video from You Tube and nothing compared to the touch pro 2 for quality video was HD looking and played without jumping, the IPhone 3gs crashed tohe sound quit working we had to restart it, and it then worked but picture of video was not full screen as the other two had. Big differance was the way they handled buffering the IPhone buffered all at first then played non-stop the other two would play a few seconds then buffer for up to 2 minutes play a few seconds then again buffer. I then played my IPod Touch same video but wifi, again video did not fit all the screen but no buffering and no digitaizing. So all in all a big disapointment with all three networks and their ability to play streaming HD video!

I was at the Sprint store again today and tried to enable high quality, but could never find the setting. I pressed the menu button over and over again while the video was playing, but it never did anything. Also, I intentionally loaded a video via the YouTube App and the quality was still bad. Furthermore I rebooted the device to be sure it wasn't just loaded down with running programs.
Weird

With the video on you press menu > more > watch high quality.

That's what I did. I pushed the menu button next to the trackball and nothing happened. No menu appeared. I also pushed every other button and the touched the screen.

Youtube Application

Listening to music via the youtube app is great for some occasions. Except you cannot turn off screen/lock phone or via away from youtube with it playing in the background.
Is there a way this could be altered so it can be used as a multitask?
Thanks

kanesw said:
Listening to music via the youtube app is great for some occasions. Except you cannot turn off screen/lock phone or via away from youtube with it playing in the background.
Is there a way this could be altered so it can be used as a multitask?
Thanks
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Sorry mate, but there's no way to do this, and it makes perfect sense that there isn't. It's like asking to turn off the screen on your TV but still have audio.
You're just gonna have to accept that it's not a music player, it's a video player.
There's some great alternative music streamers or downloaders though, such as grooveshark or nanogroove.
Both are available on xda - just do a search and they shall be yours

On my LG tv I can turn off the screen and still have audio. Good if you want to have a nice relaxing film on for background noise before bedtime.
To be fair aside from the fact that it loads fast and looks sorta pretty the YouTube application is pretty damn rubbish. I wont go into detail here but Im sure most YouTube users will be fully aware of its many shortcomings as I am. I'd like to think htc will work on these before adding the functionality of allowing videos to run in the background.
incidentally if you DO want this functionality then it is available in Coreplayer. just set videos to play in the background and when you're streaming you can freely switch between apps and still hear audio.

Another Video question

Is there anyway to take a MKV or HQ 720p files with 5.1 surround sound or 3F2R/LFE to stereo other than Handbreak Handbreak is great and love it just takes a while and some times i feel as if the video quality goes down.
Thanks!

I use ripbot264 and make a copy of all my Bluray Rips to 720p w/5.1 audio for use on my phone. It gives you LOTS of options for improving video quality etc.

talltexan said:
Is there anyway to take a MKV or HQ 720p files with 5.1 surround sound or 3F2R/LFE to stereo other than Handbreak Handbreak is great and love it just takes a while and some times i feel as if the video quality goes down.
Thanks!
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Video quality is going to go down no matter what you use b/c of the huge drop in bitrate as well as drop in resolution. As far as taking too long, I think that depends on your system.

krichek said:
I use ripbot264 and make a copy of all my Bluray Rips to 720p w/5.1 audio for use on my phone. It gives you LOTS of options for improving video quality etc.
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Why not make them 800x480 (or somewhere around those numbers to maintain aspect ratio) since phone can't do 1280x720 and you're pretty much just wasting storage space doing 720p?

krichek said:
I use ripbot264 and make a copy of all my Bluray Rips to 720p w/5.1 audio for use on my phone. It gives you LOTS of options for improving video quality etc.
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but it wont play 5.1, haven't tried it with 5.1 headphones yet however it wont play out the external speaker or in headphones unless its stereo. Or am i missing an option on my Vibrant somewhere?

I would like to know why you can't pause a movie and return to the same spot. It starts from the beginning every time. Is there a trick or just the way it is?

@krichek it wont play 5.1 out of the external speakers correct?

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@krichek it wont play 5.1 out of the external speakers correct?
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Are you asking if the file will play at all? Or if it sounds like it's in 5.1 through the external speaker?
It will play files with 5.1 but I don't think they sound any different if you are using the external speaker. I think they sound slightly better than stereo using the headphones tho.
As to why I encode in 720p with 5.1, I plan on purchasing the USB-HDMI cable when it is released and want to be able to play them on a monitor/HDTV without having to have 2 different versions on the phone.

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Are you asking if the file will play at all? Or if it sounds like it's in 5.1 through the external speaker?
It will play files with 5.1 but I don't think they sound any different if you are using the external speaker. I think they sound slightly better than stereo using the headphones tho.
As to why I encode in 720p with 5.1, I plan on purchasing the USB-HDMI cable when it is released and want to be able to play them on a monitor/HDTV without having to have 2 different versions on the phone.
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Ok first follow this tutorial to get your audio out of the video file.
Next use Headac3he to downconvert the file from 5.1 to 2.0. When the program is loaded you will see an option button on the main window. Click it and then it will pop up a second window. At the bottom you will see the down conversion settings. Set it to 2.0 and let it convert.
Then mp3 the wave file and use virtualdub to plop the audio file back into the video file. I'm sure you can find tutorials for all that. If you need to learn how to use any of the programs above tutorials can be easily found on your favorite search engine. Once you learn what your doing here this will take less 7min per file to accomplish.

Dang..... azid.dll cant download it from the official site looks like the site no longer exists. this is for Headac3he
Edit: Attempting foobar2000 as recommended by an IRC friend.

talltexan said:
Dang..... azid.dll cant download it from the official site looks like the site no longer exists. this is for Headac3he
Edit: Attempting foobar2000 as recommended by an IRC friend.
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??? I was able to download it from here . It's right under the download link for headac3he
Also I don't see how foobar200 could do any conversion since it's a media player.

No Audio with video capture

When I record videos with any camera and try to play them back, there is no sound. Anyone else have this happen? I tried multiple camera apps, playback methods, and made sure the volume was up and not on silent.
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When I record videos with any camera and try to play them back, there is no sound. Anyone else have this happen? I tried multiple camera apps, playback methods, and made sure the volume was up and not on silent.
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No one else is having this problem?.
Still looking for answers on this.

xgerryx said:
No one else is having this problem?.
Still looking for answers on this.
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I am

Mine seems to be working fine on video capture resolutions (1080p 30fps and 4k). I replayed the videos back in gallery and MX Player with the ARM7 CODEC.

Eric214 said:
Mine seems to be working fine on video capture resolutions (1080p 30fps and 4k). I replayed the videos back in gallery and MX Player with the ARM7 CODEC.
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I'm recording at 1080p 30fps and playing back in gallery to test. No luck. I can record videos in other apps like Facebook Messenger, send them/play them back and they are ok. But any regular camera has this problem -_-

xgerryx said:
I'm recording at 1080p 30fps and playing back in gallery to test. No luck. I can record videos in other apps like Facebook Messenger, send them/play them back and they are ok. But any regular camera has this problem -_-
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Did you try clearing the app cache and data? If you're hearing the audio in other apps, then it's obviously the app that's the culprit.
Also, I'm not having any issue with the stock camera playback.

Eric214 said:
Did you try clearing the app cache and data? If you're hearing the audio in other apps, then it's obviously the app that's the culprit.
Also, I'm not having any issue with the stock camera playback.
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I didn't before but I just did. It's still broken. It's across multiple camera apps though, not just the stock one. I'm going to backup and flash FreedomOs and see if it's fixed on that ROM.

xgerryx said:
I didn't before but I just did. It's still broken. It's across multiple camera apps though, not just the stock one. I'm going to backup and flash FreedomOs and see if it's fixed on that ROM.
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Have you looked into this on stock OOS? Could be something broken on custom ROMs.

Eric214 said:
Have you looked into this on stock OOS? Could be something broken on custom ROMs.
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After flashing FreedomOS, video recording sound is back. Had to be something with the xXx ROM which sucks because I was having a great experience on there.

This happened again on FreedomOS. I believe after reverting the Stereo sound mod for the phone speaker that it's fixed. If anyone has this issue, try to remove that mod and see if it helps. I thought it might have been Viper but it doesn't seem like it.

If you are rooted and have Magisk installed, flash the "Android Mic Fix" module, it worked for me