Recording 720p videos

[Guest sharix]

Is it possible to record 720p videos with zte blade? Do I need just an application for this, or should I look for a specific rom? I have FLB r9b at the moment. My camera is 3.2 MP.

Edited February 24, 2011 by sharix

[Guest wbaw]

It's not possible on the blade. Best you can get is VGA (640x480).

[Guest ronc2000]

I would forget the video.

It is not even VGA, in fact a lot lower than that.

Roms and applications would not change it.

[Guest wbaw]

I would forget the video.

It is not even VGA, in fact a lot lower than that.

Roms and applications would not change it.

You can select VGA quality, they just hide the option a bit.

However, the camera is really bad anyway, so I'd just forget it's there.

[Guest mrbloggs]

slightly off topic, but if you're after a cheap cam that does 720p, 720p @ 60fps and 1080p, asda are selling the kodak playsport for 97 quid. For the price, the picture quality is amazing, even comes supplied with a hdmi cable as standard.

[Guest sharix]

So how do I switch to VGA quality?

[Guest skull_fcuk]

Theres a Thumb sized 720p camcorder you can buy for a tenner. records to SDHC, and can be set to start upon detecting movement. Can't remember the name of it though, sorry. Saw it featured in Micro Mart (UK Computing magazine)

[Guest wbaw]

So how do I switch to VGA quality?

Select video quality/length as "custom" in the camcorder programme, then go to the other onscreen options(the one at the top/right) dependant on how you hold the phone, and then go through those options to enable VGA, effects, mpeg4, audio, etc..

It works on R3, and can't see it being removed for R4.

Doesn't work in CM7, but it should work in most Froyo roms.

[Guest bujcri]

I used apps like lgCamera (my favourite), Camera360 Ultimate, Vignette to get higher than VGA resolutions. With lgCamera I can shoot at 800x480 res, 30 fps, H264. The quality is anyway very poor in less than ideal light conditions due to camera build quality, though presets can improve it a bit. My Blade has 5 Mp camera.

[Guest sharix]

@wbaw: well after I tried this I'm getting only black noise when starting camera recorder, and then it crashes. Even if I switch back to defaut settings the problem persists.

Edited February 26, 2011 by sharix

[Guest wbaw]

It worked for me on Froyo roms, must be a bug in your rom, do you have a 5mpix or 3.2 mpix camera? Some roms are a bit incompatible with the 5mpix version. Disabling stragefright & setting the vm heap to 24m in build.prop might help. The option isn't there at all in CM7. The quality is that poor that it's not really worth using anyway, for me, no matter what resolution.

[Guest SqueakyG]

Thanks to this thread, I've got video at VGA resolution now. I hadn't even bothered to check if such a thing could be done on Froyo. Coming from previous phones I assumed that the crappy QVGA 15fps quality was a hardware limitation. Good to see some improvement can be made!

Not that this camera is worth it. It's a truly awful camera. But it's good to know it can be bumped to VGA anyway :huh:

[Guest warwound]

It's a truly awful camera.

+1

[Guest sharix]

I have 3.2 MP camera, using froyo with FLB r9b rom. I tested with Camera360 and it records video fine.

Edited February 26, 2011 by sharix