yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superleeds27:
Video Results, 2nd Settings

Data Rate - 8125kBPS

Total Rate - 8189kBPS

FPS - 17

Audio

64Kbps, Mono, 16Khz
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
so for now you have very beautiful slide show ;) but you didnt record it in good light conditions, did you??? :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
I'm gonna remove the lines, just in short vids the bitrate is at 6.4mbps, my class4 can't handle more. It isn't a fake, sd speedtest showed it's a class4...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superleeds27:
Roomlight, basically.

Should try outside while its sunny!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superleeds27:
Video 3, Outside

Data Rate -13299Kbps

Total Rate - 13364Kbps

FPS 20
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
Better less mbps and more fps.

Just my opinion. Without much mbps, the stock mbps, I get 23-24fps when the light is good.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
Here are some photos taken with pre-v8...full ressolution only edited by automatic contrast/levels in XnView (no noise reduction or sharpen)... I personally have troubles with blurry right side and much more with trees detail e.g. on photo with castle, the tree in center of the picture is horrible. Do somebody know how to avoid it???

Here is link to the "album"

http://img576.imageshack.us/g/dsc2133j.jpg/

Also comparison with samsung i8510, please compare the amount of detail!!!

i8510 vs. X10i

Here are two videos I talked about before...

720p video sample

WVGA video sample

Very irritating refocusing sounds throught whole videos...

ENJOY
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teddymild:
Here is link to the "album"

http://img576.imageshack.us/g/dsc2133j.jpg/

Beautiful, especially the first one. What setting did u use?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
THX, no special settings, only my own exposure adjustment during shooting acc. to light conditions, but for the first picture I wondered how sharp the tree is!!! But its the rare quality ;) Im not using special scenes during photo shooting at all...only exposure adjusting...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyDee:
You might get better framerate "on paper" but as you say,"you cant make data that isnt there". Re-encoding at higher fps does not just make the frames go faster. If it just made the 18fps video go at 24fps everything would be sped up! The program you use to re-encode is not adding frames from nowhere, it duplicates the frames already present so that they show for the same amount of time at the fps you set it to, lags, skips, and all. It will not make smoother videos (in my experience) and can actually decrease the quality of the video.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
@kultus:

For these results you are using v8 Camera and what kind of build.prop values?

Care to share? :eek:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechgod27:
is it necessary 2 edit the PERMISSIONS of semccamerapp with root explorer or manager?because that app is a paid app.And tht is the only fileman tht can edit permissions,i guess....

on top of that paying 4 paid apps is still not avilable in my area,India

thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
Copy to system/app reboot in xeecovery mode and in advanced menu fix the permissions this should work

Regards

sent from my x10a jit + xrecovery .435
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
Funny thing i never edited my permission yet the app still works
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
maybe I'll dissapoint you, but I've never edited built.prop :D so only pre-V8 mod camera...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbsrailfan:
Is it only me or there are hardly any changes fron the picture quality of the stock camera? The only difference I noticed was in the compression ratio, and no difference in picture quality.

I really miss the dayz when we could mod our K750 camera drivers like crazy to get long-exposure night shots and incredible macros...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
Is it me or my videocam is screwed? I tried to reflash to SE's Global 2.1.A.0.435 and my videocam still records at 14fps?? Is this normal?? What should I do ? Even using this mod it still records at 14fps.. quite weird..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
Do differents tests, you'll see improvement of the quality: sharper, less bland colors ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
I thought even the stock 2.1 says it could record 24fps ? .... Could it be hardware issue?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcxa23:
personally i have tried with v5 and v8, v5 auto-focus much faster than v8. just the amount of pic can be save reduced with v5

for those who have v5, try it out and compare it. u'll notice the difference
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
I looked at picture proprieties using photoshop and see that interpolation is on 2

If we can low down to 1 or 0 the pictures will get better because the processing on every 3 pixels 1 get interpoled and it makes the picture get blur on some points.

But the problem is I havent found it on semc camera, there must have some parameters to change it.

tks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
Maybe I don't know how to properly edit the build.prop?? should I place it a space after the last line?

Example:

xxxxx

xxxxx

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps=6000000,16000000

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.fps=21,24

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.bps=6000000,16000000

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.fps=21,24

ro.media.enc.vid.mp4.bps=6000000,16000000

ro.media.enc.vid.mp4.fps=21,24

is this correct?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyDee:
I used x10 mod tool to push it to system/app and I didnt have to change permissions. Adb push should be the same.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
Yes, it's correct ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechgod27:
thanks man,xrecovery method worked 4 permissions.......

video rec has greatly improved,maybe focus time also improved,but 1 more thing.....

Can u completely eliminate the time taken to change from potrait 2 horizontal mode in photo mode?it sort of hangs and comes back in 1-2 seconds....

thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
About my camcorder recording at 14fps (as shown in the details via pc) could it be related to the MicroSD card which is a class 2?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
No, i've a class 2 and i've got more FPS ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Ok let me define something here.

The

picture quality

depends on the modding that 28spawn has made to the SemcCamera.apk , right?

whereas

The

video quality

depends on the modding plus the build.prop values , right?

:confused:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiRIus[X]:
any chance this modded cam being installed into FreeX10 2.2.1?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
Will there be a flashable custom.zip via xRecovery for this Cam Mod? :D

Kinda lazy to go through all that step, because I always flash my ROM :P
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
The driver libraries are incompatible and need to be compromized in order for it to work. Z is still working on it , so for now I don't think so.

There is no need. It's not that a big proceedure. Just a simple copy/paste and changing 3 permissions!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaVi90:
......Up :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
The video quality depends on the modding only I think. Thanks to the build.prop, you can (normaly) increase the quality by a superior bitrate. But I don't see improvements with the build.prop ;)

@PaVi90: no :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Ok guys, I 've been testing the V8 Camera Mod and here is my results:

http://www.mediafire.com/?8lwv6sa5h7gwy2v

I've taken 2 pictures per try so that there is an objective result because only one is never enough.

The conditions where

almost afternoon , partialy sunny , outdoors (balkony)

.

The photos are organised into folders according to the shooting settings which are explained in the pdf file that you can download at the end of the post.

Regards :cool:

View attachment TestShotsCameraApk-V8.pdf
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
youre kidding right???:D:D:D image stabilization s*cks ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Yep thought you would say that. Noticed also myself. Maybe I shouldn't have used it during testing.

But I assumed it would not be a bad idea since I don't have a very steady hand. :(
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
I think i know why increasing bps decreases fps. The more we increase bps the more info has to go into a single frame, i dont think the phone is able to keep up and thus lowers the fps. I tested this today since its really sunny. I opened a whole bunch of apps then recorded some video. Then using a task killer simply closed everything then recorded again. The first recording had a very low fps of 13 and the second had 20 so the phones ability to encode is whats limiting fps when we pump up the bps
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
So what values would you recommend for bps and fps with v8?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
Assuming you used jit or somthing to remove stock apps and use a task killer before recording 13 seems to be the best mix between bps and fps but id say 8 is the safe call
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Sorry but since I'm not very familiar with this I have to ask.

When you say 13 is the safe call you mean that when I shoot a video and look at its media Info I should have around 13Mbps and 13.000fps ratings?

And if yes what values I should place in my build.prop to achive that?

Sorry for being irittating...! :o
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
The best setting: not modification ;)

The modification of the build.prop don't increase the quality, so why do you want to do it?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Raising the fps increases quality to my understanding. But still I'll wait for a reply from lord kitsuna.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
Well let's hope so because I did constant indoors filming with HD and VGA still I see on my computer in the details pane shows 14fps.. it does look slower too compared my N95-2's VGA recording@30fps.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
No. Raising FPS give a smoother video. But the quality is the same.

Raising BPS (bitrate) should give a better quality, but the lens of the X10 works at his maximum, so change the BPS is useless.

It's like a car: you can add a speedometer which can go up to 300km/h, if the car is a Super 5 1.1L, you'll can't drive to this speed, because the engine works at his maximum ;)

PS: sorry for my english, I'm french :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Totally understandable. :)

So what if I just add the .fps lines and skip the .bps lines? I wouldn't mind a smoother video ... ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
I don't know if just add the FPS lines works. Do too videos: one with these lines and one without ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
To improve fps we need to mess with se libs and I dont know if is possible, if there is any developer that did it already can help maybe we can improve this..

sent from my x10a jit + xrecovery .435
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Don't mean to be a spaz but what you're actually confirming is that adding the lines of the |OP| to the build.prop doesn't change a thing...? :confused:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvrn:
28spawn did you look into swapping zoom with EV by any chance. Is that even possible?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spreketek:
that would be a great feature!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
What is it? Sorry if it's a basic thing, but I'm not familiar with the abbreviations :o
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spreketek:
-jon08

actually its the Exposure Compensation mvrn is mentioning. the button with the +/- that tweaks the exposure levels as desired.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimonZ:
Is possible that low fps is caused by sub processing like continuosly autofocus, automatic adjust scene etc? If it is, you can consider to develop 2 version, one based on your current work with full features and another one "clean" with infinite focus and without extra features. Is just an idea i'm not a developer.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clarance:
Which 1 should i type beetwen this two??? 800000000 or 6000000
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
Ok, thank you. But, what are the interests to do that?

@Clarance: try these 2 settings, but many users don't see differences ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clarance:
Jon08 thank u for reply my frens... ya i oso didnt see any different after i try this two setting so decide to not edit the build prop
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
Yes, it's better to not edit it otherwise you will have videos with an higher BPS so a big final file, but an equal quality ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enescecen:
Thanks for this and keep up the good work.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyDee:
I can see an improvement in quality. Far less picture noise too.A lot of this thread has become opinion...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
You talk about photo or video? Because I agree for photo, but in my test, I don't see improvement in video.

I'll do other test with different far view ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spreketek:
for creative reasons... you might want to deliberately overexpose an image to create a high key effect or underexpose to check blown-out highlights.

more info http://www.canon-asia.com/section/digitalcameras/guide/canon_jcp/jcp_01-13.html
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
I think that everybody should know that after few shots... personaly I make 1 out of 20 pictures without exposure manipulation, thats why Its great idea to change zoom controls(+/-) to EV correction to avoid touching display... ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
Ok, I understand. Indeed, it's interesting :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djssquare1827:
Is there any way we can change the aperture value or Shutter speed....I would die to get that options on my Xperia X10...:)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akila87:
Can you use the stock camera icon and UI (blue colour) also? I don't know how to change it. If you can try to improve the image stabilizer also. It takes a lot of time to save the image when we use it.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madgals:
and where is v3 cam ?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaidshb:
Asking the same
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lux@:
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks & Thanks! =D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] admad:
There is link in first post, although it stands for V2, it's V3 (different size than V2) ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h.boushi1987:
please keep up your good work
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lux@:
I try to make a video with this mod! :D

The audio quality is bad... But I think that the problem is the microphone, not your mod!

Thanks for your good job! :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
I try to manage to use 2 channels but the users don,t accept.

Link name fixed.

Tks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
sorry but can't download from PC nor from my X10 :( please mirror somebody THX
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eiabea:
I want to try this!! but i have 2.2 :(

Please port your nice work to FroYo :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcxa23:
harlo.. just wanna make which is correct. the one u shown on the picture? or the one u written? which should we follow?

cheers,
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akila87:
Thanks :) I try this and give you a feedback :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bwyan Benton:
Im waiting your results.....as soon as this mod can give better results than the paid vignette camera app ill jump ship....till then vignette is still far superior.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alejandrissimo:
Woow testing, thanks for your work
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akila87:
Ya vignette is better but I tried comparing vignette with this both of them gave somewhat same results in daylight photo (vignette picture quality is set to superfine). But under a florescent light vignette was better, and the image sizes was around 3mb for this and 6mb for vignette. It looks like stock app does more noise reduction than vignette and eventually image gets blur because of that. Anyway the results are better than the original camera app.

For all the images first one is taken from this app and the second one is from vignette.

Macro Daylight

Florescent
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ratheen:
can you please enable flash for still pictures ?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calvenyow:
the image saving speed is slow...@_@
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
i can confirm saving is slow and also weird cut pictures during save process...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
the overwriten no the one on the picture

I just used the imagem from another post.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
For me now with v4 and using image stabilizer it´s taking about 1~2 seconds do save, and I taked testing about 40 pics and no one has been cutted

Try to see if it solves your problem.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
i think it also very much depends on light/what your phone is doing because as i posted before if i start to run a whole lot of stuff my fps goes down even without the build.prop mod and if i set my bps too high they go down. 8-9 mbps seems to be the safe mix between fps and bps just make sure you use a taskiller to kill all the extra tasks before taking a video to ensure best performance
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spreketek:
nope there isn't any and i think it would be physically impossible with the lens/sensor that size to have any control. the X10's aperture is locked at f/2.8 with shutter speeds or ISO varying depending on available light.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
did some more testing, today was a nice sunny day, so i took some video while in the car. it was 19fps at 20mbps the video looked smooth as i watched cars go by (but jumpy because i suck at holding still) so the way i see it if its really bright and sunny the build .prop is actually helpful if its only moderately sunny or not sunny the build.prop mod will hurt you. so the answer is simple! only use the mod in summer!! :D

EDIT: i used 20 (actually it was about 21) mbps as a proof of concept, i was able to get 19fps on a nice sunny day and its not even summer so it could have been sunnier. and 20mbps is a little ridiculous even by my standards. i personally would use 15mbps once another sunny day rolls around ill try again with that and see what kind of fps it gets

EDIT2: also i like to have my build.prop set in a way that gives the phone fallback mine is actually set to be between 13 and 25 that way the phone can fall back onto a lower bps if needed
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Can you share your current build.prop? :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
Yes please do so. Share your build.prop :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
Yes, please.

Hopefully my 16GB class10 will arrive soon...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
Recording in the snow

here are some videos i recorded in the snow. i closed all apps before taking each video.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5tr1nnz2kraw9p3
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwarkje:
Hi 28spawn!

Nice work, congratulations!

Just a question (and forgive me if the question is already asked, somewhere in this topic...): is it possible to rename your camera-app to e.g. "SemcCameraApplication-02.apk" or "Better-28spawn-Camera.apk" or whatever, and install it as a new camera-app, and use it together with the stock-camera?

That way we could compare the two of them better, I think!

Awaiting your answer,

greetz, keep up the good work,

kwarkje
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon08:
I have just 2 questions:

-Do you think that the quality is better without image stabilizer (for photos and videos)?

-Do you think that the quality is better with touch screen capture or with the physical button (for photo only)?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalte:
Hi, good work you've done here. I'd like to mention that your modded camera's missing zipalign. It's very easy to do it before you upload and it could help with stability and memory consumption.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Element:
Better without image stabilizer for sure as I have tried that and the results were much better.

Theoretically it should also be much better with touch capture as you order the lens where exactly to focus and not by itself plus you don't shake the device that much while trying to press the physical button.

Regards,

Mr_element. :cool:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piedad:
How come am getting a "camera not found" error?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davelinders:
When you overwrited it over the original one and have done that permission then reboot now it works.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
Got my class10 card for some time now and atm I don't use the build.prop lines. Haven't time to test it...

What are the best lines for the build.prop for good fps and mbps?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adaimespechip:
yo,

I've done this, and not a huge difference so i've backed out the changes, and restored the APK and reverted the build.prop.. Now i'm unable to see the Camera app in my app draw? Any ideas?

EDIT: Nvm, got it. had to re-set the USR permissions!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jvx300:
high pass filter

is it possible to add a high pass filter to the camera mod? because i notice if i record a video in an environment with really loud bass, the bass seems to over power the rest of the sound making the footage audio unuseable.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanyudidi:
Hi!I‘m very happy to see this app which maybe improve the quality of X10’s camera.

but I have a question for long time but no chance to ask that why don't we fix the video record fps rate = 24fps or even more?

some times the video I record the fps range is from 7fps ~ 24fps.

before I use samsung s8500 the camera is really nice,the HD video's fps is fixed at 29fps.

so do we have the method to fix the x10 video's fps equal to 24fps or even higher?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eugene1991:
I think it depends on the lighting and autofocus..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kultus:
I made 2 videos today in sunny day after restart and after kill all apps and they was very laggy so there must be something else
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanyudidi:
Yesterday ,I modify the prob.build ,to set the bps = 11mbps.

fps = 24,30.

and I took a video and the bps change to 11mbps but the fps is still not very high. around 21fps.....not very nice.

and another question use V8 to take pictures..I don't see so much different from

orignal semcCamera app.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 28spawn:
Im looking to the tripnraver works if it goes right we can get a hd videos with high fps and even better pictures, because the camera is patched part in app part in kernel driver

Without getting the 2 improved we never will get something excelent.

Bye

sent from my x10a jit + xrecovery .435
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanyudidi:
:D

Hope you can crack it,Good Lucky for you !

and now I fix my phone's settings for HD video's bps = 11mbps.the video seems more clear now,but fps low down to 21fps now:(
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordKitsuna:
personally 21 doesnt seem so bad to me i mean yea its not 30 but still