Thread: N900 Video Recording - Questions/Concerns
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maxximuscool is offline maxximuscool
2010-03-17 , 21:23
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#63
Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
Before recording video, go to X-Term and kill some big processes:

killall gst-video-thumbnailerd
kill `ps | grep mafw-gst-renderer | grep -v grep | cat -d ' ' -f2`

It looks like you have some videos in your N900 and tracker actively works on it. That consumes memory and other resources and it may be a cause of frame drop etc.

EDIT: don't run system media player before you start recording.

PR1.2 may fix it - it has some bug fixes related with video.

EDIT2: unfortunately, it is a price of multi-tasking and universal device, it is very easy to produce a stable recording in single task environment but it is a nightmare for multitasking.
Nightmare with 1GB of application memory? The problem is the software for the N900 camera is no where near polished. Take a look at the video recording for example. There is no pause option and if you look at the first Generation N-Series, the pause option exists there! The photo Camera is also the same, the autofocus is no where near perfect and No night mode or touch focus or any smile detection.

I think those apps are still only half bake at most but I don't know when will Nokia bringing the sexy back to their most famous camera capability device of all time. The OS is still so new and no where near stage 5 yet. And after MeeGo announced, the work on the N900 is getting more challenging. Nokia has 3 OSes to work on at the moment. Expecting delay in application fix is also necessary when dealing with bugs and maintaining the OS.