[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Bonscha:
Hello folks,

I tried to record decent 1080p video on my SGSII. Turned out that really gets a problem.

My device runs on Android 4.0.3 (IML74.XXLPQ) in combination with the Siyah kernel (3.0.32-Siyah-v3.2.5.2+ gm@gm-mint #113). Secondrom is some CM9 ROM.

First, I just tried the stock Samsung camera app, but I can't work with the refocusing. Seems impossible to turn off the autofocus.

Besides that, the automatic white balance is crap. When I run through, wearing an orange shirt, it fu**s up the white balance and the picture gets a blue tint for a few seconds. Presets aren't the best, too.

I tried the ICS camera (while using CM9 secondrom). Same problems, but video stops recording after 16 minutes or so, and it doesn't proceed. I mean, what the f**k?

At this point, I'm looking for a camera app that:

- (optionally) has manual white balance (for me to set it using a white sheet of paper).

- can set the focus to fixed.

- records as long as I want it to, until the memory is full or I interrupt it. (When hitting 4GB, it will have to split, but it should automatically continue recording).

That was when I started looking for good camera apps. I tried some, and the best I could find until now was lgCamera. I used the free variant.

It works mostly like I want it to, though I have to set the white balance to some fixed setting. Focuses and fixes it. Everything seems to be okay.

Then it continuously stopped recording, after 4:17 minutes (@30Mbit/s), or after 1:32 minutes (@100Mbit/s). Looking at the files, it only uses 765 MB before stopping. Remember, it has to run as long as I don't stop it and there's memory left!

Of course, I used the free version, but the Play Store says:

I tried the Pro version, but it keeps stopping.

BUT not enough with stopping recording! lgCamera also freezes some times. Especially while recording at 100Mbit/s (usind only 65) when stopping, it just freezes to death, leaving the phone unusable and I have to reboot. Yup, I waited whole 15 minutes, before I rebooted. I also saw how it worked like it should. Very slow when stopped, but hey, no freezes.

At this point, the app also should:

- never freeze! (Can't be that hard to find for an ex-mainstream phone...)

In addition to all that what I mentioned above, the phone loses battery like hell, of course. So I also look for a ROM which is very stable (!) and also very battery-saving while not limiting power used by the video recording app.

Aaand... And this one is a huge bummer... Absolutely every app with which I recorded produces unbelievable crappy framerates!

I set it to 30fps and I get random sh*t between 25 and 32 fps. This is a big downside, because I really get problems working with it in Adobe Premiere/After Effects and also encoding it. Even if I encode it to a “real” framerate, which all editing programs understand, it's still async!

So after I collected hours and hours of material, I don't really want to encode (assuming it would work) every single video (of whose every single one has a different framerate!), because it would take ages (and, of course, the encoding will cost a little quality)!

At this point, it has to:

- have conform fps output (29.970 or 30.000) or at least another fps which stays the same in every video!

- run on a stable, battery-saving ROM.

I don't need any other apps besides the recording one, because I will edit the video on my computer.

If you have read all this, I hope you also help me out.

Which ROM should I use as a pure video recording ROM?

Which app is a stable one for use on the SGSII and has the features I mentioned above?

Do you have any tips for me, how to get the perfect video?

I really hope anyone will help me with this.

Thanks in advance! :)