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coercri
Joined: May 16, 2003
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I realise that different courses for different horses, but.....
I had a 3650 for about 2 months before I got the P800,and the video part of the phone was crap. If you weren't on top of your subject, it was hard to make out who it was, after you took the shot (10-15 secs max), the phone hung for anywhere between 2 to 4 minutes.
Not the best experience.
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Alan Preece
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lectrosoul
Joined: Jun 10, 2003
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The phone didnt hang that was the phone encoding the video.. and in the right lighting conditions the video was perfectly fine for sending to other phones or email,been doing for some time with no complaints, the other video app hipcam that recorded longer didnt have as good video if you notice after you record with this app it does'nt take time to encode the video, hence worse quality..
anyway back to the p800 video... matter of time and patience!!
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simion_levi
Joined: Feb 20, 2003
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I'm inclined to say it's certainly possible, and the writing to solid-state internal/external RAM of the video shouldn't be an issue - this would be done after the video had been taken, surely? I believe you'll find that there is an unknown section of very quick read/write RAM built into the phone for buffering etc (or possiblya section of the 12MB internal is used, but i doubt it - see below) - thus this would simply have the video temorarily written to it, and then once capture is over it would be transferred to the Duo or to internal memory, depending upon where you told it to go.
Let me put it like this - this is digital equipment, so EVERY image you see when using the camera viewfinder, etc, every micrometer you move the phone requires another 'photo' to be taken, stored to memory, and then processed and displayed.
You aren't simply looking through a piece of glass or plastic at the real image on the other side here. Swing the phone around wildly, you know it'll blur, but you can get a decent continual image with slower movements. It doesn't matter whether or not you've pressed the 'capture' button - every frame has been recorded to some memory on the phone for a certain period, and then read right back in nanoseconds, and i know it's certainly not the Duo, and unlikely to be the 'usable' 12MB built in, either. The pause after taking photos is the phone taking it's time transferring from the 'buffer' memory to a storage location, which is evidently far slower. Obviously the 'buffer' is told to clear out reasonably quickly, but i'm pretty sure theres more than enough space for a 100KB+ video on there - it's probably a MB or two (but this is just me musing....)
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daloon
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simion_levi:
You are right about the buffer memory, it's obviously quick enough for this task. But to preview *one* picture you don't need much of it especially if it gets flushed every now and then. To get a fluid video on the oher hand, you have to capture continuos frames and that naturally needs considerably more space. Since quck memory is expensive, there's no reason for the phone to have any more than absolutely nescessary. Otherwise it would make it unreasonably costy. Unless of corse, the SE intended this functionality from the start, but then where's the application?
Did they not have time to make it but enough time to make the games? With the right knowledge it would take a few days as opposed to making a game like MIB2.. I just don't get why they would exclude such a sales point if it was possible..
Some sort of video recording will come one day, i'm sure.. but i'm not convinced that it will be of any use, even for mms. I hope that some developer will prove me wrong though  |
coercri
Joined: May 16, 2003
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lectrosoul - Yes I realise that it was encoding the video, the point I was making was that it wasn't a very good experience. I was showing it off to a friend and because of the time lag he went of the idea completely.
The reason I said what I said was, was because a video recording app for the P800 seems to be the Holy Grail at the moment, but having experienced it on a phone (and being quite excited about the idea) I found it wasn't the experience I was hoping for.
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Alan Preece
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Bogus Jimmy
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
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I just wanted to get something straight with the delay after taking a picture. The original poster said it takes "several seconds" to store a photo after it is taken. This is not true. Storing the photo only takes about 1/2 a second, the rest is just a delay so that you can view the photo you've taken. (This can seen by turning the "Picture Freeze Timer" to 0- R2F, maybe R2D only) I know this would still not give a smooth picture, but I agree with simion_levi in that it definitely can be done!
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