Anyone know if there is a hack yet to get more than 5 minutes recording time while shooting 4K?
jokalee said:
Anyone know if there is a hack yet to get more than 5 minutes recording time while shooting 4K?
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After recording 4K for five minutes, feel how hot your phone gets. Put your finger on the camera lens housing, the tell me you want to hack it to keep recording. The phone practically melts down after five minutes, you definitely don't want to record for longer.
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After recording 4K for five minutes, feel how hot your phone gets. Put your finger on the camera lens housing, the tell me you want to hack it to keep recording. The phone practically melts down after five minutes, you definitely don't want to record for longer.
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Thanks for the reply. I have been shooting a few 5 minute 4K videos and my V10 it didn't get extremely hot. I just got it last week, so there isn't much else on it but stock apps. My Note 3, on the other hand could melt an igloo if I just turn the camera on. No shooting required.
jokalee said:
Thanks for the reply. I have been shooting a few 5 minute 4K videos and my V10 it didn't get extremely hot. I just got it last week, so there isn't much else on it but stock apps. My Note 3, on the other hand could melt an igloo if I just turn the camera on. No shooting required.
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Yeah it's a bummer that we only get 5 minutes of recording, but our phones are using a method of software encoding to shoot 4K, and this process really heats up the cpu. Professional cameras that shoot 4K have a dedicated hardware encoding chip, so they can record nonstop. Someday mobile phones will have a solution like that, but today is not that day.
10 minute limit solved (mostly)
I found this problem on a Samsung S7 Active with Qualcomm CPU (AT&T branded phone). Samsung may have put a 10 minute limit on video for 2 potential reasons:
1. The phone gets very toasty if it's over 10 minutes at 4k.
2. 11m 30s seems to be the 4GB limit for 4k video, which may be a limiting file size for certain storage.
I solved this, but still have the limitation that every 11.5 minutes or so the video stops and starts again after a couple of seconds (because it's reached the 4GB storage limit).That's OK for my purposes, but might not work for you.
To get this working I first installed two apps:
1. Open Camera
2. No Screen Off
Open Camera is an open source camera app that can be downloaded free from the Google Play Store. It allows for 4k video recording for as long as you have storage (I had it recording for 3 hours without a problem).
You will need to do a couple of tweaks in the Open Camera app to get 4k video recording working:
* Settings | Video Settings | Video Resolution. Make sure it's HD 1280x720.
* Settings | Video Settings | Maximum Duration of Video. Make sure it's "unlimited".
* Settings | Video Settings | Restart on maximum file size. Set to "yes"
* Settings | Video Settings | Force 4K UHD video. Set to "yes" (this is the critical setting that worked for me on this device but may not work for you).
If you want to record to a storage card, go to Settings | More camera controls... | Use Storage Access Frameworks and turn it on. You should be able to use it to select the SD card folder to store photos and videos to.
That got me recording 4K video, but the screen times out which stops video recording. The max time I can set the screen to stay on for is 10 minutes (not much use!). So I used the "No Screen Off" app. Installing that and tapping the icon forces the screen to stay on indefinitely.
I've coupled this phone with a damaged screen ($37 from eBay), with a 64GB micro SD card and a power bank to provide power for 3 hours to make myself a cool 4K camera for recording concerts. I can afford to have several capturing different parts of the choir / orchestra to edit in post processing.
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Simple question, I'm sure it's possible with some sort of hack or tweak in a setting. I have searched in both google and on this forum, and have seen ways it can be done with droid phones and such. Even if it can be changed to an hour or similar time would be great so it can be changed as need be.
Surely someone knows of a way...
30 minutes = 1 gig of ram memory (estimate)
That 30 minute "VIDEO" gets put towards the ram memory.
Then later when video recording is finished, it processes and gets stored as its file.
The video is not saved until hitting the record button again, or just hitting the 30 minute mark.
There is no way of changing this, unless they lower the video camera quality.
Personally i use my video recorder quite frequently. Nothing more than 20 min. I hook it up to my car dock and do lap times with it. It's very responsive and has great fps, also it does cancel a lot of useless noise.
I would suggest try to go on the market and look for video recording apps. Or even google some homebrew apps.
Hello everyone.
I can only record video for 10 minutes and then phone automatically stops recording.
10 minutes limit is on FHD (1920x1080) 60fps option, if i turn to FHD but 30fps there is 25 minutes, but it's still not enough.
My card is formated in exFat, so 4GB problem doesn't exist.
Does anybody can make mod to camera apk to bypass this limit?
Chris
Same problem I noticed here. I'm trying to record road trips and that time limit surely doesn't help at all!
I'm saddened to see not a single reply yet.
I assume using some different camera apps could override that limit. Haven't tried though so can't confirm. Although I actually want to use the stock camera and prefer it over any other camera app.
Hoping to find a solution for this...
Is there a way to record front & rear cameras simultaneously for longer than 3 secs.?
I can't do this on lollipop currently, as it only allows pictures and videos for 3 seconds when using the multi camera mode. But the g4 can do it for longer than a few seconds, right?...and idk about the g5...but why cant our v10? it was made for content creation so that's really perplexing why I can't do it. I know snap mode allows 60 seconds but I want it to be continous and storage to be the only thing that stops it from recording, not a predetermined time limit, like any other time I'm recording video. did the marshmallow update fix/add this feature? is there another way to do it? an app maybe? I am rooted, if that helps. haven't updated to marshmallow but if this has been added back, that's be great news for me as I really need this feature. i might have to go buy a g4 to get it, though.
I'm very sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum or if this has already been asked. I did search but couldn't find anything.
What exactly limits the super slow motion to 0.2 seconds or whatever it is? Would it be possible to increase that to something higher?
If it was a matter of storage then I'd be more than happy to get a huge sd card for my phone but I suspect it might be limited by the ram capacity.
Any help would be great.
I completely agree with this. I also hate that you have to do it within a normal video. How about just slow mo? Press record. You're recording in slow mo. Press stop. It stops.
Outatime67 said:
I completely agree with this. I also hate that you have to do it within a normal video. How about just slow mo? Press record. You're recording in slow mo. Press stop. It stops.
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You can cut the video after recording.
@Ddave73
Th limit is the DRAM that is a layer right underneath the image sensor.
Longer recordings with 960 fps are not possible.
Unlimited Recording is possible with normal SlowMo with 240fps in FULL HD
I have a S9+ I want to use as a helmet cam for sports (I have another main phone, don't worry) and I have it set to 1080P 60FPS but my only problem is Samsung has limited it to film for only 10 minutes at a time for that and then it stops. I'm not going to be able to stop in the middle of sports and take off the helmet to press record again. This is where tasker comes into play. I just have no idea how to use it. How do I set it up to where it'll automatically record again once those 10 minutes are up? Thank you!