I just run into a problem a couple times now, and I was wondering, if someone else had the same problem...
I have videos / Podcasts that seem to have a very annoying crackle noise in it... video does not stodder... or anything, what would indicate bad playback or something... also it does not seem to be only if volume is set high... i do use my headphones with it...
Now in the begginning i thought i might just be a bad recorded show.... but this morning i heard it with a different show... and its very annoying... now this still might be a coincident... I will see if the video plays fine on my PC... but until then I was just wondering if anyone else have issues with crackleing sound while video playback...
The only time I had this was during playback of AAC 5.1 on video (MKV) files. If you have this in ALL your apps, I wonder if you have a faulty phone? Sounds like a weird one!
You said you use headphones, so the problem occurs with AND without using the 3.5mm jack w/ headphones?
Well i actually havnt tried without the headphones... But if would be odd if it had anything to do with that since some videos go flawless with them.... The only 2 video players I have is rock player and podcast player dogcatcher.... Any other suggestions on players?
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See if it happens on headphones too. If it is only through speakers, possible defective speakers? If it is both, it could just be the media or perhaps something with the audio decoder?
I am no expert so take my advice with a grain of salt.
Also, try DicePlayer and see if that works.
Download Pandora or Slacker radio and see if it happens through that, too. If it does, there's definitely something wrong!!
Ok.... I checked the file its a quick time mov file.... It never happens so far with my radio app.... Also only happens with one or two video podcast with dogcatcher.... They problem so far o ly occurred with the headphones... Will try later without them...
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Do you know if your podcasts are 5.1 channel? I wouldn't think they would be, but if they're 5.1 and AAC that would align with my problem.
Tried dice player.... Even though it's nice same problem...
I might make a video so you have a idea.... How is the best way to do that? I any apps out there that record your cellphone screen with audio?
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alright here you can see what i am talking about...
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6476/mn7.mp4
normal video without problems...
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7438/q28.mp4
Any other thoughts how I might be able to fix this?
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I had the same issue when I downloaded Max Payne 3 a few days ago. The menu screen starts crackling horribly, and at least one other Evo Lte user confirmed the same.
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this is sooo funny i wanted to state the exacte same thing just started playing max payne myself... and wondered is that is part of the game or that darn crackleing again... so any idea where that comes from !???
I wish i would know if that is a issue of a couple of phones... or ALL phones... In other words if i bring it back and get it exchanged will i have the same issue!?
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Ok.... I checked the file its a quick time mov file.... It never happens so far with my radio app.... Also only happens with one or two video podcast with dogcatcher.... They problem so far o ly occurred with the headphones... Will try later without them...
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If you use Linux you can convert it to an MPG file using ffmpeg command, it will lower the file size, keep the aspect ratio and quality; that get's rid of the cracking noise in my case.
No, I I am a windows guy..... Would I've to know what the problem is..... So re encoding might help with video files.... But what do I do with games.... Like mentioned.... There must be a better solution, and or?
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I have this same issue, especially with Max Payne and Grand Theft Auto 3.
I haven't had the cracking else where, though.
It seems hit or miss so I may take my phone to sprint to try to get it replaced.
Well i would like to know if the hardware is what it is or if this problem is with all EVO ltes....
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I've scoured the web, but it seems 50/50 that some people do, some people don't have the issue, so I feel like it's most likely faulty hardware (or people are just putting up with crappy audio, but I find that hard to believe, as we all pay so much for these devices they should work properly, especially with beats audio premium advertisements).
I'll let you know what I find when I go in to the store...
i have it crackle when playing 720p video on my evo. the only video i have is an mp4 and it crackles in every video player except for dice player. but now that i think about it, could it be due to the beats audio eq? im gonna try it without beats and report back.
edit: nope it isn't beats. turned it on and off and tested playing on speaker and through headphones on both and it made no difference. i might go as far as to say that this is a kernel issue since that has a lot to do with video playback. and considering this is a new phone i should be worked out in the future (given that it is in fact a kernel issue)
edit edit: it may also be worth noting that mx player and dice player seem to have no problem playing video as long as you use the software decoding instead of hardware decoding
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i have it crackle when playing 720p video on my evo. the only video i have is an mp4 and it crackles in every video player except for dice player. but now that i think about it, could it be due to the beats audio eq? im gonna try it without beats and report back.
edit: nope it isn't beats. turned it on and off and tested playing on speaker and through headphones on both and it made no difference. i might go as far as to say that this is a kernel issue since that has a lot to do with video playback. and considering this is a new phone i should be worked out in the future (given that it is in fact a kernel issue)
edit edit: it may also be worth noting that mx player and dice player seem to have no problem playing video as long as you use the software decoding instead of hardware decoding
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I tried the same thing, turning beats audio on/off with no change. I haven't played around with video though. I'll give that a shot now. If I run into a problem there and we can't fix it, then this phone's getting replaced for sure. That's not acceptable...
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Videos play just fine for me, but anything by Rockstar Games...complete crackly garbage.
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I tried the same thing, turning beats audio on/off with no change. I haven't played around with video though. I'll give that a shot now. If I run into a problem there and we can't fix it, then this phone's getting replaced for sure. That's not acceptable...
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Videos play just fine for me, but anything by Rockstar Games...complete crackly garbage.
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also keep in mind that some of the apps may need so changing in order to work. i have seen quite a few apps in the market that after they updated say in the description "evo 4g lte users please uninstall and reinstall to clear up some problems"
so i would give it some time to see if it clears. and like i said i don't think its the phone but rather the kernel because if you play a youtube video or play music through the speaker, its crystal clear. if it was the phones speaker that was damaged then you would hear it all the time rather then in a few apps and while playing movies.
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also keep in mind that some of the apps may need so changing in order to work. i have seen quite a few apps in the market that after they updated say in the description "evo 4g lte users please uninstall and reinstall to clear up some problems"
so i would give it some time to see if it clears. and like i said i don't think its the phone but rather the kernel because if you play a youtube video or play music through the speaker, its crystal clear. if it was the phones speaker that was damaged then you would hear it all the time rather then in a few apps and while playing movies.
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True, good point.
I was worried that perhaps it's some kind of interplay between the gpu and audio systems, as it was predominantly in games.
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I am just wondering if anyone has any tips or mods I can do to lower the nasty pixilation I see when streaming over netflix or other movies sometimes.it happens on wifi and 3g.
it drives me insane when im watching a movie over hdmi output and it even gets "blurry" on my tv screen. Am I alone? Is there anything I can do to make it look clearer /sharper?
I didn't think it should show up like that on my tv also but it does. And the tv isn't a bad tv.
Just looking for a little more clarity. Mainly just a bit more consistent clarity. I don't mind it once in a while but it happens more than I like.
Thanks for any input.
There was a post this week (previous page ) called "Encoding settings for video playback" that was also addressing this issue (i believe). It was a little over my head technically, so I'm not sure what was concluded, but it sounds like what u r saying.
Oh, and I have the exact same experience (annoying), so lemme know what ya find out ; )
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it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
Cheapxj said:
it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
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That applies for netflix as well? I mean, I know its streaming, but that has to be due to hardware shortcomings, no?
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it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
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See I don't understand this statement because it happens with ANY video/movie I watch with my x2. Have even viewed highly rated quality movies from "certain nameless " websites and get the same problem.
The only thing I don't really get nearly as much.pixilation while viewing is quality videos on youtube when viewing in high quality mode ((go figure))
Even when I was complete stock unrooted and rented a movie from google market I got the same problem.((I can't remember how constant it was but I KNOW pixilation was there))
Also im not really speaking of my videos I recorded.((of which I had great quality and playback was great also when atv720p and DVD quality )) but that was when using blur camera...I haven't tried any video recording on eclipse miui camera yet
Too many variables are involed with streaming. Every company may say streaming is the way to go when its not. Your internet connection, how many people are streaming on Netflix, plus SD vs hd, settings in Netflix, crappy HDMI chord. Bought an HDMI chord from an August zed retailer for Verizon and everything was pixilated. Didn't even get to the video when I saw how bad it.was.I just unhooked and returned. Rent or download the video. That's how you get the best quality. Streaming is 50/50 usually better hardware also makes the difference. Its probably recognizing that its mobile and is giving you crap cause they need to make sure their videos need to work within the fragmentation of android as a whole. Best to leave streaming on laptops hooked to your HDTV and streaming on mobile on you cellphone screen.
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Too many variables are involed with streaming. Every company may say streaming is the way to go when its not. Your internet connection, how many people are streaming on Netflix, plus SD vs hd, settings in Netflix, crappy HDMI chord. Bought an HDMI chord from an August zed retailer for Verizon and everything was pixilated. Didn't even get to the video when I saw how bad it.was.I just unhooked and returned. Rent or download the video. That's how you get the best quality. Streaming is 50/50 usually better hardware also makes the difference. Its probably recognizing that its mobile and is giving you crap cause they need to make sure their videos need to work within the fragmentation of android as a whole. Best to leave streaming on laptops hooked to your HDTV and streaming on mobile on you cellphone screen.
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The thing is the "blurry" picture on the tv screen looks EXACTLY like the image on my phone screen. It is an exact mirror. Im trying to figure out if there is a way I can fix that.
It was worse on eclipse 7. Something in one of the init.d scripts caused my gjjellyfish test to max at 22fps and my mandlebrot score to be horrific. So now that those are back to normal it doesn't happen as often but it is still noticeable. Just wondering if there is a way to improve that.
Do you get the problem with a video file on the phone itself? Cause so far all I can say is that blur is from the servers if it is not happening with the video file on the phone. I don't stream Netflix on my cell and when I used the mirror to an HDTV it looked horrible on TV but perfect on my cell.
It streaming depends with the host servers and overall quality of the video for mobile since they most likely won't be the same video files for computer's cause they meed to make sure it can stream on a 3g network and have the customer not die from old age waiting for it to load. Even though you use wifi it will still send the IP of a mobile which will get you the mobile version which may not be as good.
Only fix is to stream over a laptop instead. If you went through the apps and this did nothing then there is nothing you can do on your end.
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Has anyone tried using dolphin hd spoofed as a desktop to see if they can stream from netflix website? I think I may try this later on to see if that helps anything ...
Hey guys I've read some posts, reviews and watched some video samples of the Amaze and from what I can tell..it's true, the audio recording on this phone is horrible.
I wanted to ask if anyone from this forum could compare it to the MT4G?
That's the phone I am currently using now and want to know how does it measure up to the MT4G's audio recording when shooting video.
I ask because I record a lot of videos with my MT4G and it's important that the audio quality on the Amaze isn't less than my phone.
1080p would be awesome to have (mine has 720p) but I don't want to sacrifice audio quality.
So with that being said, could anyone tell me from personal experience whether it's worse or better when compared to MT4G?
Thanks a lot.
I would ask if you are so concerned for professional reasons and then I realized a pro would use a real camera...
Not trying to be a prick or anything. Just curious.
What is with the concern of how well the audio is recorded off your phones camera?
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I would ask if you are so concerned for professional reasons and then I realized a pro would use a real camera...
Not trying to be a prick or anything. Just curious.
What is with the concern of how well the audio is recorded off your phones camera?
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Because I don't own a point and shoot camera so I rely on my phone to do all the recording.
I have two kids, 5 and 4, and I record them all day, everyday.
So yeah I just don't want to sacrifice the audio quality for better video quality.
Cause if you have kids that young you should know the audio is the most important part!! They say some of the craziest things. Lol.
Anyway, thanks for asking though. I don't mind explaining. Do you have any thoughts here?
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Because I don't own a point and shoot camera so I rely on my phone to do all the recording.
I have two kids, 5 and 4, and I record them all day, everyday.
So yeah I just don't want to sacrifice the audio quality for better video quality.
Cause if you have kids that young you should know the audio is the most important part!! They say some of the craziest things. Lol.
Anyway, thanks for asking though. I don't mind explaining. Do you have any thoughts here?
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If you want good audio quality on a phone camcorder, you're not going to have any luck with HTC, put simply. The Amaze is a fantastic phone and video quality is among the best out there, but audio has never been HTCs strong point. If you're looking for great audio, I'd suggest looking into a Motorola device, though T-Mobile really doesnt support Moto anymore it seems. If you do go with Motorola, just know that video quality will not be the best on most, at least from what I've seen. The Razr looks solid on both fronts. Then there's the iPhone 4S, which undoubtedly has the best of both worlds. Either way, I'll stick with the Amaze. I love it in every way.
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nguyendqh said:
Because I don't own a point and shoot camera so I rely on my phone to do all the recording.
I have two kids, 5 and 4, and I record them all day, everyday.
So yeah I just don't want to sacrifice the audio quality for better video quality.
Cause if you have kids that young you should know the audio is the most important part!! They say some of the craziest things. Lol.
Anyway, thanks for asking though. I don't mind explaining. Do you have any thoughts here?
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AWESOME!!!! Way better answer than anything I could think of. I definitely see where you are coming from. Audio would be very important.
Not that I have taken a lot of video with mine yet but I have to say it does not sound any better/worse than my iPhone's ever did. Video is a ****load better though
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AWESOME!!!! Way better answer than anything I could think of. I definitely see where you are coming from. Audio would be very important.
Not that I have taken a lot of video with mine yet but I have to say it does not sound any better/worse than my iPhone's ever did. Video is a ****load better though
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So it's not like a horrible difference yeah? Well that's good.
I mean my biggest thing was whether it'll be worse than my current phone.
myTouch 4G.
That's really what I'm trying to get at.
I don't have a problem with my phone's current audio recording.
I just don't want to be downgrading. =P
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If you want good audio quality on a phone camcorder, you're not going to have any luck with HTC, put simply. The Amaze is a fantastic phone and video quality is among the best out there, but audio has never been HTCs strong point. If you're looking for great audio, I'd suggest looking into a Motorola device, though T-Mobile really doesnt support Moto anymore it seems. If you do go with Motorola, just know that video quality will not be the best on most, at least from what I've seen. The Razr looks solid on both fronts. Then there's the iPhone 4S, which undoubtedly has the best of both worlds. Either way, I'll stick with the Amaze. I love it in every way.
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I can understand what you're saying, but my thing was just whether it's an audio downgrade from my current phone, the HTC myTouch 4G.
That's all. But thank you for the suggestions and yeah I'm not a big fan of Moto phones either.
Thank you.
What about Music quality?
How is the audio quality for music and video? I use my phone as mp3 player.
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How is the audio quality for music and video? I use my phone as mp3 player.
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The audio quality is very good. But not stellar. Much depends on the source. If you use badly compressed mp3 files and cheap earbuds don't expect much. The phone can play .flac files if you install a 3rd party player like PowerAMP. That combined with a good set of headphones (I'm using Klipsch, which are also very good but not stellar) then the audio quality is more than adequate.
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The audio quality is very good. But not stellar. Much depends on the source. If you use badly compressed mp3 files and cheap earbuds don't expect much. The phone can play .flac files if you install a 3rd party player like PowerAMP. That combined with a good set of headphones (I'm using Klipsch, which are also very good but not stellar) then the audio quality is more than adequate.
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I'm not that much of an audiophile but I do have good earbuds so I guess I should be set. Thanks
Why don't you take you're kids to a t-mobile and take some test videos too compare? Seems Luke that would be the easiest thing for you to do and you would not have to rely on any the opinion of someone else.
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As far as recording, the audio is just as good as my vibrant...take that as you may--I am not a huge video guy. Plus, once you record, you can edit the audio on your pc.
PowerAmp is the single, most important app for me...in the car, at work, everywhere, the output is amazing.
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Why don't you take you're kids to a t-mobile and take some test videos too compare? Seems Luke that would be the easiest thing for you to do and you would not have to rely on any the opinion of someone else.
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Sounds like a good idea there. Lol. I will probably do just that. Thanks.
Beats Audio
Do you know if Beats Audio will be in the Amaze anytime soon or in the dev posts?
audio seem ok to me...I had the SGS2 which only provides MONO audio, and audio quality seemed good . This phone provides mono and Stereo so I played around with it and when I put it on mono audio the sound quality is much better, but then again you get mono....So It might have something to do with the extra microphones trying to pick up extra sound and cutting out the background noise....Personally I feel the sound on the Amaze is much more clear with high treble, than the SGS2, is the only phone I can compare it to. sound on SGS2 was muffled a little. also the speakerphone on the back and front of the HTC device sound much less muffled than My SGS2, I have no experience with motrola or any other brank of phone.
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Do you know if Beats Audio will be in the Amaze anytime soon or in the dev posts?
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We already got a couple of roms that have Beats Audio Hack. Check them out
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We already got a couple of roms that have Beats Audio Hack. Check them out
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Ok Thanks...
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Sounds like a good idea there. Lol. I will probably do just that. Thanks.
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I installed a app from the marketplace called Volume+, it was less than 2 dollars. But you can go to the dev website and download it for free. It boost up the volume from the audio playing from the loudspeaker and headset. I don't know if it will boost the recorded incoming audio. To me I had the MT4G rooted with a sense 3.0 Rom and I already love this amaze. As long as your hand doesn't block the microphones on the phone it is fine. Plus for 15 dollars you can buy the adapter to hook up to your tv and watch the glorious 1080p via HDMI. Also my Amaze is all stock. Plus the reception and call quality is very good.
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I installed a app from the marketplace called Volume+, it was less than 2 dollars. But you can go to the dev website and download it for free. It boost up the volume from the audio playing from the loudspeaker and headset. I don't know if it will boost the recorded incoming audio. To me I had the MT4G rooted with a sense 3.0 Rom and I already love this amaze. As long as your hand doesn't block the microphones on the phone it is fine. Plus for 15 dollars you can buy the adapter to hook up to your tv and watch the glorious 1080p via HDMI. Also my Amaze is all stock. Plus the reception and call quality is very good.
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This may seem odd but I found that, to me at least, it sounds better with the "stereo recording" off. That's how my MT4G videos sound.
Anyway, volume is not the problem here. It's sound quality.
I get the best recording with an app called rec forge, mono, wav and 22khz sample rate. The stereo recording does not improve the fidelity of the sound. I have yet to try an external Mic.
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Question is, is there one? Reason....first, the video is excellent but the audio codec encodes horribly and the resulting videos sound track is horrible. That damn compression noise from super low audio bitrates is horrible. And that beeping noise, im almost certain it comes from the sound cancellation settings. You get the same compression and beeping noise when you use the built in voice recorder app in the AAC method.. I downloaded an app from the market labeled "Microphone". Basically it feeds all sound from the mic directly to the speaker or headphones (supposed to use headphones and it works as a sound amplifier with a headset on) . While testing that, I did not hear that horrible compression noise, but...when I turned something on with louder low frequency noises such as my car or the stereo, I would notice that beeping noise. So it appeared that a sound cancellation setting was responsible for the beeping.
So I tried a few other apps. RecForge Lite mainly...after making numerous test recordings and pksybacks, I have observed that there is no compression noise in the recordings generated by RecForge Lite. I have also noticed there is NO beeping noises either. The recordings were very clean and high quality.
So...I have searched for an alternate video recording app in the market..gahhhh, I cant find one. I want to record video without that horrible noise, now that I know its possible.
lol i feel ya. we went through this months ago when it came out. go in development if you're rooted and flash Joes hq camera mod. it helps a bit with the compression but it still isn't perfect.
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lol i feel ya. we went through this months ago when it came out. go in development if you're rooted and flash Joes hq camera mod. it helps a bit with the compression but it still isn't perfect.
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Yeah all the different things we tried haha.
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Shutting down noise cancellation in the build prop does not help. It's HTC software... It's way deep into their system too. ICS camera in the market does an ok job of recording video and audio.
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Shutting down noise cancellation in the build prop does not help. It's HTC software... It's way deep into their system too. ICS camera in the market does an ok job of recording video and audio.
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yeah, it works, but i couldn't get ICS camera to do 1080p for me, only 720
BUT sense 3.6 and ICS gets rid of teh clinks and pops in the recording, if anyone else noticed..lol
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Shutting down noise cancellation in the build prop does not help. It's HTC software... It's way deep into their system too. ICS camera in the market does an ok job of recording video and audio.
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That ICS cam, is it just for ICS or can it be used in other versions of Android? Rooted necessary?
Ah yes our old nemesis - Rezound noise cancellation...
There's another camera/camcorder app on the market I tried a couple months ago when this came up, lgCamera (I think it works on GB and ICS). It has settings galore, probably not all of which are supported on the Rezound. I see it's been updated since I last tried it. I honestly don't remember how much of an improvement it made with the audio track but it's worth a try:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera
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Ah yes our old nemesis - Rezound noise cancellation...
There's another camera/camcorder app on the market I tried a couple months ago when this came up, lgCamera (I think it works on GB and ICS). It has settings galore, probably not all of which are supported on the Rezound. I see it's been updated since I last tried it. I honestly don't remember how much of an improvement it made with the audio track but it's worth a try:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera
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I had caught sight if that when I was in the market but was afraid it might mess something up if I installed.. it does say "LG" ... Tho...I will give it a try. Thanks rsage. I will be back later with the results...and hopefully it doesnt kaboom my camera ...
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I had caught sight if that when I was in the market but was afraid it might mess something up if I installed.. it does say "LG" ... Tho...I will give it a try. Thanks rsage. I will be back later with the results...and hopefully it doesnt kaboom my camera ...
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No it doesn't have anything to do with LG the cell phone company, and it won't affect the stock camera
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Any idea what the difference is between the Free and the Paid versions? Does it expire or is there some kind of limit?
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Any idea what the difference is between the Free and the Paid versions? Does it expire or is there some kind of limit?
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Probably ads... Lol..
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Probably ads... Lol..
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Nope, no ads.
Oh by the way, that lgcamera is awesome. The video records good and the audio quality is very good. Way better ...and NO beepng! Im stoked!
Only thing is, it seems the video is zoomed in one notch by default and you cant bump it back any so its got a very narrow fov and a bit close to the objects in front. It doesnt size it like that in normal photo mode...hmm..ill have to notify the Dev.
Thanks rsage
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Nope, no ads.
Oh by the way, that lgcamera is awesome. The video records good and the audio quality is very good. Way better ...and NO beepng! Im stoked!
Only thing is, it seems the video is zoomed in one notch by default and you cant bump it back any so its got a very narrow fov and a bit close to the objects in front. It doesnt size it like that in normal photo mode...hmm..ill have to notify the Dev.
Thanks rsage
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Now your making me curious about that app......
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Probably ads... Lol..
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Now your making me curious about that app......
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Oh yeah, you can change the video and audio bitrates. Change audio sample rate and other things as well. Tho, you will have to play with the bit rates a bit as some of them cause corrupt video files (noted - if the video freezes but the recording timer still counts, it will be a corrupt vid. Use a different bitrate. Note, dont use too low of audio bitrate with a high sample rate). Im still testing it out. Fix that video zoom glitch and it blows the stock camera out of the water. The only thing the stock cam has against this is the shutter lag time. Stock cam, pic taking is nearly instant, with lgcamera there is a half second lag. Not too bad tho. You dont take action shots with your phone lol .
Edit - NO idea why it quoted killahrey ...... :s
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Oh yeah, you can change the video and audio bitrates. Change audio sample rate and other things as well. Tho, you will have to play with the bit rates a bit as some of them cause corrupt video files (noted - if the video freezes but the recording timer still counts, it will be a corrupt vid. Use a different bitrate. Note, dont use too low of audio bitrate with a high sample rate). Im still testing it out. Fix that video zoom glitch and it blows the stock camera out of the water. The only thing the stock cam has against this is the shutter lag time. Stock cam, pic taking is nearly instant, with lgcamera there is a half second lag. Not too bad tho. You dont take action shots with your phone lol .
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what settings in video did you use that cleared it up without corruption?
Hi,
I've just noticed something strange on my machine: When I watch HW accelerated 720p video the screen glitches every so often, maybe once or twice a minute. It doesn't happen on SW decoding. The glitches are , for example, part of the picture appearing corrupt or in the wrong place for a fraction of a second.
Does this suggest my Tegra is on the way out? I had a quick play of a game to see if it caused glitching but couldn't see anything. Are there any decent video stress test apps out there that could maybe reproduce this?
I hadn't actually noticed this before the new update, but I expect it is just coincidence.
Can you please post the video player you use and maybe some more infos about the video file you used?
The problem you described seems to be similar to what I experience while using Dice Player with mkv files that contain x264 video and ac3 sound. This happens with pretty much every tv series (all made with the standard release rules used for the illegal releases) I watch on my prime.
I get the same with Dice player. I will try others when I get a minute and see if it's the same. Never put two and two together because it happens when I'm not watching a video. But the last few times I noticed it happening it was after I had been playing a video and the player was still "live" in the back ground.
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I get this all the time when watching 720p / 1080p. Its only for a split second.
I was watching How I met your Mother which was 720p last night and a small square where a persons face was kind of corrupted for a second, then went back to normal.
Its also happened with 'A very Harold and Kumar Christmas' which is 1080p.
Both were Mkv files and I use a combination of MX player and BSplayer, because MX player sometimes doesnt play sound for some reason
Same problem here. I have come to the conclusion that the Prime is unable to play 720p or 1080p smoothly. Every single file on every player skips frames every 10 seconds or so when using HW decoding.
This tablet is useless.
I've been noticing the same thing, using the ad version of Dice Player. Most of the video I watch is 720p, h264 or x264.
But I have to disagree with Fizzerr -- I only noticed it after the .28 update. I'm fairly certain this wasn't a problem before -- I'm very picky about video quality -- so I don't believe this means the Prime's hardware is incapable of playing hi-def video smoothly.
I get intermittent frame and sound skips, very jarring. Happens in default player as well as Dice.
mbieler said:
Can you please post the video player you use and maybe some more infos about the video file you used?
The problem you described seems to be similar to what I experience while using Dice Player with mkv files that contain x264 video and ac3 sound. This happens with pretty much every tv series (all made with the standard release rules used for the illegal releases) I watch on my prime.
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Sorry - I meant to add the player info, but forgot.
I'm using 720p AC3 MKV container files.WEB DL essentially. The problem doesn't seem to happen on non 720p files.
I'm using Dice Player AD, BS Player lite amongst others. Essentially any that use HW acceleration seem to have the issue. I thought it was caused by a bump the machine received as I didn't ever notice this item the bump. Mind you, I did update to the latest firmware around the same time, so this could be the cause.
Essentially is looks like artifacts produced by a dodgy card, but if others are seeing it then there is maybe hope. Perhaps I'll try a non-AC3 720p vid.
Fizzerr said:
Same problem here. I have come to the conclusion that the Prime is unable to play 720p or 1080p smoothly. Every single file on every player skips frames every 10 seconds or so when using HW decoding.
This tablet is useless.
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My tablet played 720p fine until very recently (either a bump or the new firmware seems to have caused the issue). Hell, I even used the Prime to play SBS video into my Sony HMD and all was fine. I only get stuttering on 720p when I use software decoding.
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But I have to disagree with Fizzerr -- I only noticed it after the .28 update.
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In my case I can definitely say that this problem occurred from the very beginning with honeycomb.
I find it only mildly annoying because the happiness about a tablet playing high def videos smoothly (at least almost...) outweighs the glitches. It's THE main reason why i bought this thing.
At least now we know that we are not alone with our problem. Maybe Gary takes a look at this thread and puts the issue on his to-do list
I really want to think this is a firmware issue. I don't recall this happening until I upgraded to the .28 firmware. I also believe it happens at any time using any app (no restricted to just videos), only that it is easier to detect when video watching.
I see similar visual glitches sometimes when web browsing (stock browser) and sometimes see it on my calendar widget on the home screen. Once again, I don't recall having these issues until upgrading to .28 firmware.
The thing is, it is random and doesn't happen at the same spot when I watch again.
It looks like artifacting caused by a GPU that is too hot! Hope I'm wrong.... Or maybe right. Asus'll have to give me a new machine! :laugh:
I would like to weigh in on this
Oh, it's the .28 firmware alright, this coming from someone who has had the Prime since release date, on Honeycomb. Other than .15 which also gave me some video ****ery, all other firmware releases have been fine as far as video. I have been able to watch both 720 video and 1080 Blue Ray mkv files without a hitch, a glitch or a twitch. >28, which took close to 3 months to spit out is the absolute worst release yet, as they focused on a couple of issues, and screwed up a whole bunch of stuff in the process. ANR reduced greatly, WiFi is cranked to the max (so it works only SLIGHTLY sub-par, instead of hugely, but video? The worst. I went back to .21, added my custom build.prop (from Seanzscreams) SIO scheduler, and I am good for the moment. Can't WAIT to see how bad 28.5 or it's successor is. I swear, the longer they take to release, the worse they are, no ****.
In January-March we had FW being pushed every 7-15 days, like clockwork. Then they slowed to a snails pace, and the FW sucks. Lends credence to the theory that they took developers off the Prime, and put them either on Nexus 7 or other tablets such as the 300, and the "new" Infinity. Maybe we SHOULD all start screaming for "free upgrades to the Infinity again, LOL. Mark my words, I saw 32 gb Infinity for $499. If that's correct then the Prime is about to be pulled. I know exactly how they will do it. They will trickle out all the remaining (fixable to a degree) Primes, and keep saying "We arre NOT discontinuing the Prime" Then, when they have dumped the stock, they will say: "Well, we tried, but it just wasn't SELLING" so we HAD to stop production.
Do I sound a bit jaded, LOL? I see a bunch of posts from new forum members in this thread, and I wonder: How much crap are THEY willing to take. I have had more than my share from Asus.
In which case.... how the duck do I go back to the previous firmware?
My Netflix audio has been out of sync since I first got my G3. My network is fine as Netflix works perfectly on PC, iOS devices, Chrome casts etc. The audio seems about 1 second behind the video. Anyone have a solution or have the same problem?
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I typically watch on my chromecast, but the few times I have watched on the phone everything has looked good. If you're running ART try switching back to Dalvik. Other than that, try the typical force stop/restart on the netflix app and then a full on reboot. If it's still laggy then I'm out of ideas.
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately I've tried all or them. So far
I'll update if u get it fixed. (and yeah casting is fine for me with my phone because it isn't really my phone doing the playback but rather the actual chromecast)
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I have been getting the same problem
Maybe its because the image quality is much better than on most other devices that its arriving slower than the audio? That's my best guess. Its not super annoying, the delay is small enough that if you don't pay attention to who is speaking then you cant really tell. But it is noticeable. And if there is a fix that would be awesome.
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Maybe its because the image quality is much better than on most other devices that its arriving slower than the audio? That's my best guess. Its not super annoying, the delay is small enough that if you don't pay attention to who is speaking then you cant really tell. But it is noticeable. And if there is a fix that would be awesome.
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I have this problem too. Tried downgrading Netflix but no luck. Tried different Roms too and nothing. It's pretty annoying. Funny thing is I don't have these issues with video players or videos streaming from YouTube.
Just found this thread researching this issue. Just got my G3 yesterday day. Everything is still on stock. Anyone notice if other video apps suffer the same problem? I ask because to me it feels like video generally looks a bit like overprocessed motion-interpolated modern tv sets. And if the g3 uses stuff like that it might be related...