It's not really a solution, a workaround at best.... First of all it doesn't remove all glitches, and second, most kodak-moments are long past by the time I have closed all processes, switched the phone to offline mode (as was suggested earlier), and set the cpu to 1ghz. Obviously restarting the phone and defragmenting the memory is out of the question altogether.

As for which memory to use, some people report the best results on the mmc, others the internal memory.

Has any progress been made with this? Heres a top sample of my n900 recording and dropping frames like crazy.


Mem: 220716K used, 24584K free, 0K shrd, 2536K buff, 53556K cached
CPU: 45.0% usr 28.2% sys 0.0% nice 25.5% idle 0.0% io 0.5% irq 0.5% softirq
Load average: 1.49 1.31 0.72
PID PPID USER STAT RSS %MEM %CPU COMMAND
1826 982 user R 28976 11.7 35.7 /usr/bin/camera-ui
770 1 pulse S < 3940 1.6 15.6 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority
827 672 root S < 18832 7.6 12.6 /usr/bin/Xorg -logfile /tmp/Xorg.0.log -logverbose 1 -nolisten tcp -noreset -s 0 -core
755 1 root S 1132 0.4 4.5 /usr/sbin/omap3camd -d /dev/video0 -f /tmp/omap3camd0-installed
10 2 root SW 0 0.0 1.5 [omap2_mcspi]
749 672 root S < 2324 0.9 1.1 /sbin/mce --force-syslog
1995 1930 root R 740 0.3 0.9 top

I cant see it struggling in the slightest? Is there any way to change the encoder?

N900 has OMAP3430 which support 720p encoding/decoding also upto 720p camcorder recording resolution.

So the question is why on earth it isn't possible from the beginning?
Take a read here and you'll know why:

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtb...ontentId=14649

I have e-mail discussion software engineers inside Nokia. Hopefully they take this bug reconsideration.

"OMAP3430's IVA 2+ supports MPEG-4 and H.264 encode/decode of 30 fps video at 720x480, and WMV9 decode at the same resolution and framerate. OMAP3430 can drive displays up to WXGA (1280x800) resolution at 24-bits"

So they must get this to work! Luckily they have responded positively to the my mail . Future can only tell.. I tell you guys more.. when i get some info.

has anyone found here how to pause video recording on n900?why nokia did so, there is no option to pause the video recording in the new PR1.3 too???any alternetive way to pause i must need it!!!!!!

As IXXE said, using "cpufrequi" with "userspace" set works for me too. No frames dropped anymore. I'm running at 800MHz but works fine at normal speed too.
Thanks for this.
Lets hope somebody will offers us a decent video capture tool. The harware is waiting for it ...
Bye

I have noticed that there are multiple resolution settings now. Hit the wrench icon when in video mode. It really helps framerate.

If it's any help i would like to mention the sony ericsson vivaz pro that is something like the n900 but with A LOT LESS STORAGE SPACE ON BOARD. Same 5mgpx(thou i don't know about the lens), same cpu/gpu, n900 has more virtual RAM, the biggest difference is that the Vivaz is stoped at ~720mhz clock, where the n900 is somewhere near 1ghz. And may i suggest using some lines from Vivaz pros video recorder

has anyone found any app or pause button on n900 while video rec.

ok.. There is way to record smooth video...

i change my active frequencies to 900:56,600, and then:

Then save the video on emmc.. smooth .. When you stop recordin. do not forget to:
Can some "god like man" (maybe cssu??) add this to the videorecorder software? When you start recording it will lock mhz and when you stop, it will unlock. Normal videorecord software is use 500mhz maybe turn it sometimes even on the 256mhz.. this is why it lags.. This working also, if you lock it to 600mhz, but not so good as cpu800-900mhz and DSP 600mhz.

Try this and comment something...