Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

Sound and pic still seem to be out of sync when played back on Media player. Same as the 2007 release, but I am happy someone is still working on the application, thanks. :)

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

But then you'd have to <gasp /> transcode! :eek:

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

I'm sure higher quality is possible. h.263+ calls I've tried have a higher frame rate and are also encoding the audio to g729 and decoding audio and video from the other caller, all over a network, and all at under 50% cpu.

I agree. I really wish I had the time/skills to bring Peekaboo into OS2008. It would be a great app.

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

Identifying faster-encoding codecs is easy. H.263 was nifty technology in 1995 and designed for processors of that era. So, to find faster encoding codecs, you just look further back in time to when processors were even weaker. You'll find technological wonders like Cinepak, Indeo, and Apple's Road Pizza.

The thing is, you're not going to get high quality out of any of them. I suppose the "Road Pizza" nickname may have hinted at that to you though.

You could look at mild compression solutions, accepting a much higher bitrate, but how fast is the tablet's I/O subsystem? Also, how much is the CPU involved in that I/O? I haven't looked into it, but I expect the tablets aren't designed for high bitrate, sustained writes. So, lowering the compression complexity might not help.

In the end, H.263 might not be a bad codec choice. Ideally though, it would be implemented in optimized, hand written assembly. If the DSP could be brought into play, possibly for the audio encoding, so much the better.

I don't expect to see anything like that appear on the tablets anytime soon though. There's a reason the really good compression tools cost thousands of dollars. Writing optimized codecs in assembly is hard. (Let's go shopping!)

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

KzSnzzz.... Whuh? Huh? <opens eyes> Oh hey, why'd you wake me up? I was having this beautiful dream about recording / streaming nice quality video from my N800.

So, Nokia has the h.263+ / g729 encoding software running in the Internet calling app? So just drop that code into the videocamera app! Isn't it developed by a Nokia guy?

Peekaboo uses VLC to encode the video to WMV, but no audio. It looked OK, but I can't help think that dropping the Internet calling encoder into this app would solve our problems.

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

Greetings:

Can anyone tell me if the developer of this VideoCamera apps has visited this thread yet?

I believe the quality of Video boosting up to 640 X480 could reached.
Or at least give us two video options.

This videocamera apps is great when you want to record a videoblog.
But if the voice doesn't sync well with the video and quality suffers, then not many users will install this apps.

Please try to improve on the VideoCamera Apps!!!!!!!

Regards Robert

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

Great job, many thankz. Perfect lil spy recorder.

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

I agree it's a cool spy recorder, but on my unit the sound volume is very low, even after I set the system volume to high during record and playback.

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

Saving to internal memory card is done without problems (it's selected on n810 by default), but the sound volume is very low indeed. On Windows It's played back by Mplayer and MediaPlayer Classic, but not default WM Player 11 with FFDshow (no other codecs, like standalone Divx or XVID, installed). And it would be great also to see more resolutions implemented (at least 320x240).

Re: Videocamera for 2008OS - Released!
 

On the sound issue, you can use the included stereo headset to give yourself a wired microphone. Just did a test, works great.