Comments on: RNS:: RapidMovie – the time-lapse camera for your Treo http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/ Palm OS / web OS news and opinion source Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:35:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tam Hanna http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/comment-page-1/#comment-157277 Tam Hanna Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:48:11 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/#comment-157277 Hi, IMHO, this is where memory card speed comes in to bite you hard. All cards I tested so far were very slow when writing was concerned => limiting data transfer rate... Best regards Tam Hanna Hi,
IMHO, this is where memory card speed comes in to bite you hard. All cards I tested so far were very slow when writing was concerned => limiting data transfer rate…

Best regards
Tam Hanna

]]> By: Drbuzz0 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/comment-page-1/#comment-156733 Drbuzz0 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:48 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/#comment-156733 That may be correct, depending on the quality and resolution, that is. The 3G2 files at CIF or QVGA resolution are not good for much aside from video messaging and such. The quality is pretty crappy. I realize you need a decent amount of processing power to compress video on the fly and do it well. I just wish there were some option for a compression/quality "compromise." I wish I could record at a quality of, say 480x360 or even 640x480 (that would rock), even if it meant resorting to a less effecient method of encoding, such as mpeg-2 or DV or MJPEG That may be correct, depending on the quality and resolution, that is. The 3G2 files at CIF or QVGA resolution are not good for much aside from video messaging and such. The quality is pretty crappy.

I realize you need a decent amount of processing power to compress video on the fly and do it well. I just wish there were some option for a compression/quality “compromise.”

I wish I could record at a quality of, say 480×360 or even 640×480 (that would rock), even if it meant resorting to a less effecient method of encoding, such as mpeg-2 or DV or MJPEG

]]> By: Tam Hanna http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/comment-page-1/#comment-153760 Tam Hanna Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:07:59 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/#comment-153760 Hi, IMHO, this is a problem of CCD speed mostly. The exposure times could be too long...add in the processing times and ... . 3 to 4 fps is IMHO the max that a Treo could achieve.. Best regards Tam Hanna Hi,
IMHO, this is a problem of CCD speed mostly.

The exposure times could be too long…add in the processing times and … . 3 to 4 fps is IMHO the max that a Treo could achieve..

Best regards
Tam Hanna

]]> By: Drbuzz0 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/comment-page-1/#comment-153093 Drbuzz0 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:46:30 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/08/23/rns-rapidmovie-the-time-lapse-camera-for-your-treo/#comment-153093 I'm actually pretty impressed by the quality of the movies it can do. Now if it only could do them a lot faster (like at least 20 per second) and it were able to record audio.. you'd have a pretty good camcorder app for high quality video. I suppose the codec is probably something pretty big like MJPEG though.. That's kinda what Live from Toysoft does, but I've found it kinda clunky. I’m actually pretty impressed by the quality of the movies it can do.

Now if it only could do them a lot faster (like at least 20 per second) and it were able to record audio.. you’d have a pretty good camcorder app for high quality video. I suppose the codec is probably something pretty big like MJPEG though..

That’s kinda what Live from Toysoft does, but I’ve found it kinda clunky.

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