Pixelated and "blocky" videos. Is this normal? - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers

Hello everyone,
I got myself this device a week ago and I'm already thinking about returning it.
Don't get me wrong, I know this is not a "camera phone" and I know its price range but look at the attached pictures: it's a screenshot of a 4K video I shot today. I used the stock camera app and my rom comes from the latest OTA update, 9.6.5.0(OEGMIFD). Is that supposed to look like that?
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Look at the fur of my dog. It looks like a low bitrate issue but the file itself reports a bitrate of 42669 Kbps! This blocky mess can't be normal. Either my device is broken or this camera really sucks hard. I can almost count pixels.
Should I consider this normal or there's something wrong with my phone? Thanks.

Try using not 4K options, but 1080p. If this doesnt help try Footej Camera

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For those not happy with the DNA camera look here.

I was just reading in another thread about how some are just not happy with the camera quality that this phone has to offer. Well, I'm here to tell you that the camera is not the issue at all.
I was one of those that thought the stock camera was just not cutting it for me, and was a tad upset about it as well. Yesterday I thought I'd give Camera 360 from the app store a shot, as I already used it before with my Gnex, and it produced better looking images. To my surprise, the app completely kicked ass, and now I will never use the stock camera again on this phone for any reason, period!
Not only is it a fantastic app, but it comes loaded with some amazing features, and filters that make taking photos with this phone a pure joy.
Below are a few samples of images I took today while hanging out with my daughter. Take note that edits were done from within the app itself, and are straight out of camera without any processing using Photoshop, or Lightroom.
Hope this helps many of you out that were on the fence about the camera.
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[Q] Camera app with levelling?

Is there a normal camera app which uses the leveltool in android?
Why? because i see lots of pictures with an angled horizon, caused by holding the phone under a slightly angle when taking pictures. (including myself)
The only apps which use this feature are the panorama apps. It starts working from the second picture till the last. I'd like to see an app which has this feature by single shots.
thnx
Here's an example of what i mean:
Take a look at the waterlevel. It's not straight. I's diffiult to get that horizontal. A gridline with a beep would be nice. I noticed on my default camera app there's a tiny gridline. i can't see it in this conditions.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cyth4remmzhpz5v/IMAG1092[1].jpg
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Guidelines?
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moblynx.camerajbplus&hl=lt
For free .apk file, look here: http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/26094420/file.html

[Q] SM N910F frame per frame playback 4k

Goodday my friends,
I use the SM N910F version of the Note 4.
The Dutch version.
My phone is ofcourse rooted by chainfire and I managed to do most things I wanted myself inc removing all bloatware ect.
But my last thing I want I couldent solve myself.
I want a frame by frame playback option for 4k. I looked for simliar threads and tried some apps from there but noone worked... Please help me Somebody I will be a happy man when this will work. I film alot in 4k and than I need playback frame by frame.
Greetings,
Dig3tal.
In the stock video player, go into the settings and enable "Capture" as shown;
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Then, when paused, you will have a screenshot button with arrows either side to advance video frame by frame.

Rear camera preview grainy/noisy

When loading the camera app, the preview for the rear camera is very noisy/grainy/staticy. The front camera is fine, and when you actually take pictures and videos with the rear camera they look fine, it's only the preview that looks funny. Is it like this for everyone or is something up with my phone?
Does this answer your question?
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Haha, I guess it does. It's still really strange though, isn't it? Every other phone I've used is much more "what you see is what you get", the actual shots on my S6 look radically different than the preview. I guess it makes sense, especially in low light since the live preview probably has a much quicker exposure time than the actual picture.
Just look at it this way...
If you line up what looks like a good shot on the screen, you know it's going to be even more fantastic when you actually look at it lol.
Since this is basically a question this has been moved to the proper forum.

Phone crashed when taking picture, encoded POST-screen into jpg.

Earlier this year I had just cut the lawn by my little cabin, I sat down for a post-lawn moving beer and for some reason I decided to take a selfie.
The phone, a LG G3, crashed at exactly the same moment I shot the picture. It rebooted, and it turned out that the phone had indeed produced a valid jpg-file. A very strange jpg-file.
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It seems to have encoded the (normally invisible) post-messages (or similar) in as IMAGE DATA. That's like... increadible. Ok, if it had filled the jpg-file with binary data that was a result of the post-text, but no. This is still a properly encoded jpg.
What happened? Does the camera use some sort of framebuffer before writing to SD? And this buffer also has something to do with the screen? Is this the camera module in itself that crashed?
I'm a bit astounded that not a single reply was made to this post.
I, myself, find this crash way beyond odd. Unfortunately I have no good guess how it could happen.

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