[Samsung Infuse 4G] Misterjunky:
Infuse Video Camera Recording Tests With Stock And Custom Roms​

For those of you who are interested in the quality of your homemade video recordings and playback

please read on. Check out these tests which were made with all the stock and custom roms.

(these tests were conducted using a tripod and good indoor lighting)

Stock Froyo 2.2 Rom: Excellent very smooth, virtually no hesitation or lag during recording and playback of moving objects on preview screen.

(Ultimate Unbrick - Return to Stock)

Froyo 2.2.1 Custom Roms:Excellent very smooth, virtually no hesitation or lag during recording or playback of moving objects on preview screen.

(Infused 1.5.3, Infused 1.6.0, Refuse 1.7, Bionix Infinity 2.0)

Basically all the Froyo 2.2.x based custom roms all have the same results. Excellent video recording quality, smooth and virtually no noticeable hesitation or lag while recording and playback of homemade video. (I have tested different formats, 720p, 640x480 etc.)

Gingerbread Based Roms: Testing Rogers Gingerbread 2.3.x based Infuse i997 custom roms such as Infuse 2.1, CyanogenMod 7 and Hellraiser with i9000 Gingerbread based roms the video recording and playback quality with these roms were very poor with constant jerkyness, hesitation and lag due to only capturing up to 15fps like many cheaper cell phones do.

(even tried "CWM_UXKG3-rooted-de-odexed-updated_no_bootloaders_v2 & Odin_UXKG3_rooted_no_bootloaders_v2" GB roms with same results.)

These same recording/playback tests using Froyo based roms have no jerkyness, hesitation or lag due to capturing the full 30fps as advertised in the Infuse i997 specifications. (very noticable differences when comparing)

The Real Test: Record video while in Froyo based rom, flash any Gingerbread based rom, record video in gingerbread based rom then playback and compare the two videos. (this will take some time to test but for those who care enough about video recording quality it will be worth while)

You can easily see this hesitation/jerkyness while in a Gingerbread rom and the lack of hesitation/jerkyness while in Froyo roms by just starting up the camera app, switch to video camera and turning the phone in landscape mode moving slowly from left to right / right to left then speeding up little by little while looking thru viewfinder at objects on your table or desk without even starting the actual video recording.

It took me over 3 hours to conduct all these tests, I wanted to be sure that I tested the Froyo stock and custom roms and all the Rogers Gingerbread based custom roms available for Infuse i997.

These tests were all conducted in the exact same lighting conditions indoors with good lighting and using a tripod.

All recording and playback tests were made with homemade videos, not movies or other videos downloaded from the web.

It would be very interesting to find out other peoples video recording and playback results and experiences under similar conditions with these Froyo/Gingerbread based roms.

I have a strong suspicion that until the DEVS get their hands on the stock AT&T retail Gingerbread rom made for Samsung Infuse i997 we will need to choose between the stock Froyo/custom Froyo roms with excellent quality homemade video recordings and playback or the much faster Gingerbread based custom roms with all the extra bells and whistles (features and options) but lacking the video record and playback quality we have in Froyo based roms.

All the DEVS here in this Infuse 4G forum are constantly working and striving to improve these custom roms for our phones and have done and are doing an excellent and wonderful job. (thanks!)

So it’s up to each of us to choose which roms to use and how important quality video recordings and playbacks are to us.

Many people here may not use the camera in the phone much at all so video recording quality is not important to them

however for those of us who do a lot of video recording with our phone and want the very best possible quality this can

and will be of great importance.

I would really like to read other people’s opinions and comments about this.

If you are interested in seeing the technical details & results with exact framerates you might want to test

using "MediaInfo". It's excellent way to test & compare results between Froyo & Gingerbread based roms.

It's fast and easy to use. It adds mediainfo into explorer's shell options.