Some neighbors of mine are setting up their expensive Christmas lights and synchronized radio display again this year, and I was hoping to get a little bit of video recorded along with the music. I'd like to use either my N9 or N900 to record the spectacle, since they both have an FM receiver built in. But I can't seem to make it work . . .

On both phones, if I start the FM radio (with any radio app I've tried) then switch to the camera, the radio stops playing as soon as I change to video mode. If I start the camera first, it goes into standby mode when I try to start radio playback. Does anyone know a way to work around this, or are the two processes competing for the same resource and therefore can't be used at the same time? According to this page, the FM radio is a video4linux device, maybe that's the conflict. Or am I asking too much of GStreamer or maybe the DSP?

I'm sure I could use a separate radio (or the other phone) coupled either acoustically or electronically to do this, but I thought it would be cool to tell people I'd recorded it with just one device (and they can't. )

I've tried searching for a thread here along these lines, but I haven't had any luck. (Also, Power Search isn't working for me in Kubuntu Chromium right now but is okay for Firefox: weird.)

Suggestions appreciated, or if anyone knows it just can't be done so I can forget about it without regret . . .