Okay, so there have been a few things that are really kind of irritating me with the videos on the Captivate... of course it could all be operator error and there may be fixes for it all, so that's where you guys come in
1. It seems I can't send a video I have shot over gmail unless it's at one of the absolute lowest resolutions and lasts no more than like 10 seconds. Is there anyway around that? This is even over wifi. Shot a video last night, and couldn't get it to send until I had it on the second to lowest resolution and kept it super short (10ish seconds)... This seems pretty ridiculous considering my old phone could at least send a minute or so of pretty good resolution video without any problems and didn't give an error.
Anytime I try to send a larger or longer video so far on my Captivate, it says file too large and ends up sending a blank email to the recipient.
2. If the battery is below around about 20% I think, the phone won't even allow you to play videos... Likewise, you can't even open the camera app if the battery is on the lower end. I dunno, I feel that's kind of crazy. I mean if I wanna utilize my last few minutes of my phone's life watching a video or taking a pic for whatever reason, shouldn't I be able to make that executive decision? lol.
Soooo is there anything I'm missing here that would fix these problems for me?
Brynn85 said:
Okay, so there have been a few things that are really kind of irritating me with the videos on the Captivate... of course it could all be operator error and there may be fixes for it all, so that's where you guys come in
1. It seems I can't send a video I have shot over gmail unless it's at one of the absolute lowest resolutions and lasts no more than like 10 seconds. Is there anyway around that? This is even over wifi. Shot a video last night, and couldn't get it to send until I had it on the second to lowest resolution and kept it super short (10ish seconds)... This seems pretty ridiculous considering my old phone could at least send a minute or so of pretty good resolution video without any problems and didn't give an error.
Anytime I try to send a larger or longer video so far on my Captivate, it says file too large and ends up sending a blank email to the recipient.
2. If the battery is below around about 20% I think, the phone won't even allow you to play videos... Likewise, you can't even open the camera app if the battery is on the lower end. I dunno, I feel that's kind of crazy. I mean if I wanna utilize my last few minutes of my phone's life watching a video or taking a pic for whatever reason, shouldn't I be able to make that executive decision? lol.
Soooo is there anything I'm missing here that would fix these problems for me?
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1. Are you trying to send a video you previously recorded or trying to send new video you just captured?
Have you tried - opening the mms or email app first and adding an attachment. When asked what attachment you select Camera. Then record video and let the app compress it before sending. This has worked well for me.
2. Heard this complaint about videos and music players alike. I couldn't provide any info on that matter as I haven't been agitated by that particular scenareo yet...
Hope this helps.
Shovelhead84 said:
1. Are you trying to send a video you previously recorded or trying to send new video you just captured?
Have you tried - opening the mms or email app first and adding an attachment. When asked what attachment you select Camera. Then record video and let the app compress it before sending. This has worked well for me.
2. Heard this complaint about videos and music players alike. I couldn't provide any info on that matter as I haven't been agitated by that particular scenareo yet...
Hope this helps.
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Umm well mostly video that has just been captured or previously recorded. When I go to the gmail app first and go to attach, it only lets me choose image files rather than video. Sigh. :-/
Thanks for your reply though, I really appreciate it
I admit it. I'm an idiot. I sold my Nook Color and bought the wi-fi Tab because I wanted a front facing camera. I got it, set it up, rooted it, tweaked the build.prop file so the icons aren't so freaking huge, added Zeam, and installed the apps I wanted/needed.
So, I'm all good to go now I think except for video calling. This I can't get to work. I need to do video calling from the Tab to a PC and possibly to an iOS device as well. The Tab to PC is what is critical though. I can't find oovoo in the market, but I found an APK posted here and tried it out. It didn't work. It used my rear facing camera instead of my front facing camera and video from the Tab never made it to the PC I was calling. I checked and the tick box is checked to use the front facing camera. No matter what I check, it goes to rear facing though. Plus, Oovoo never picked up my BT headset as a microphone. (Tested the headset with google voice search and confirmed it was working later.) Qik is pre-installed on the Tab, but when I click it I get a message that says, "service coming soon." I don't think that lets me call PCs anyway. Yahoo Messenger has been suggested to me, but I don't see it in the market for my device. Any ideas?
Oovoo seems to work for everybody on here
Maybe your Res is to low I know below 182 the camera forcloses try putting it above 182
I changed my build.prop back to 240 just to test if that was the problem. It made no difference so I set it back to 190. My phone and my Tab are on the same wifi network. I have no camera on my computer, but I don't see that as causing the problem. When I call my computer, or vice versa, this is what happens. On my Tab, I see a blank avatar for my computer caller. This is to be expected of course. On the upper left of the screen, I see an image of what my rear facing camera is seeing. This appears whether I check the box for front or rear facing camera. Doesn't matter, I still see the rear facing camera. On my computer I see a completely black screen on the left and a blank avatar on the right. The video from the Tab never ever gets to the computer. The BT headset I'm using doesn't get picked up as an audio source. I here just noise over my computer speakers. When I mute the microphone on my Tab, the noise on the computer speakers goes away so I know this is the problem with the audio.
Edit: Are there any apps I can use just to confirm the front facing camera is working?
A. Nonymous, i see you downloaded the oovoo.apk from here, is it the new mobile version that was released Wed. 27th April ?
bartlaroc said:
A. Nonymous, i see you downloaded the oovoo.apk from here, is it the new mobile version that was released Wed. 27th April ?
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No idea. I'm looking at it now, where do I need to go in the app to look?
You must be in a different country then the USA. I tried everything you complained about and everything works. GST Sprint 3g
I'm in the US and I'm using the wifi Tab.
To test the front facing camera, you can simply turn on the camera and then set it to self portrait... There's a white blob in the top left corner when you hold the tab wide ways. Clicking on it will give you camera options - including self portrait.
Sometimes the camera gets stuck and I find that you need to clear soom Ram...
Hope this helps
T
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immaterialman said:
To test the front facing camera, you can simply turn on the camera and then set it to self portrait... There's a white blob in the top left corner when you hold the tab wide ways. Clicking on it will give you camera options - including self portrait.
Sometimes the camera gets stuck and I find that you need to clear soom Ram...
Hope this helps
T
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Yes. That is a huge help. Let's me confirm that the front facing camera is indeed working. So to summarize:
Rear camera works.
Front camera works.
ooVoo can't be found in the market and sideloaded APK doesn't work. Doesn't recognize my BT headset for audio. Doesn't recognize the front facing camera for video. I don't know what version of the app it is.
Yahoo Messenger can't be found in the market.
Any other ideas to do video calling from the Tab to a PC?
this is the ooVoo 27th April release app
there are things i use
Kik
qik
oovoo
tango
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bartlaroc said:
this is the ooVoo 27th April release app
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Thanks for the APK. When I run it, I get the message "Sorry, your device is not supported yet." But their website says it is. I guess I'm left to contact their tech support.
deadlyheart4u said:
there are things i use
Kik - Doesn't seem to support video chat
qik - Can't call computers.
oovoo - Doesn't work as documented earlier
tango - Can't call computers, just other mobile devices.
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I sideloaded Yahoo Messenger (loaded it to my phone, backed it up, restored on my Tab). It doesn't pick up audio either. This may be because I'm in so close proximity to the computer I'm calling. I may simply be picking up feedback from my computer's microphone. It also picked up the video from my rear facing camera and not the front facing one. I couldn't find any settings to change that.
received the same message on my Verizon SGT-I800
"Sorry, your device is not supported yet."
Tango works for me as I have 3g, but I'm trying to get this to work on my step fathers I800, it's a Verizon tab but doesn't have 3g service. Was hoping WiFi video calling would work! Ugh...
I think if I was doing calling to another Android device or another iOS device, things like Qik (sideloaded probably) or Tango might work. You'd think they would have some program pre-loaded on the Tab that would do video calling. I can't believe they don't.
If it helps anyone, I contacted ooVoo tech support and got the following response, "Thanks for the info. Currently this model -Galaxy Tab GT-P1010 is not on our supported list of units and I'll escalate to engineering to research and get it added to the list."
install skype and qik which is from skype and you have a perfect working video chat application which I use to see my grandchilds in philipinnes from the netherlands in almost perfect video quality
Second possiblity is using a cobinnation of voip with video
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Hi. I have a new SGT (wifi & cellphone) which I bought in Australia & using in Philippines. I am using both YSM & ooVoo successfully. YSM only uses rear camera. ooVoo uses rear & front. I set ooVoo to front camera in settings but first few times I ran the app, it used rear camera! This confused me for a while but after manually switching to front camera (you touch the screen over camera image) it stayed using front camera. Manually switching back to rear camera again usually results in the avatar you mention for the PC viewer... only occasionally does the rear camera actually work and then it's in the wrong orientation for the person you are talking to on PC. Strangely, rotating the SGT does not rotate the image on the PC! It must be using the motion sensor to "correct" orientation. I'm also using SGT & PC on same network.
One more thing that may be of significance is that sometimes when I've viewed an AVI video (can't tell you if encoding format matters) both the cameras stop working. The "viewfinder" only shows a corrupted image of the last frame of the video that I viewed?! The only thing I can do is power off/on to fix this.
I hope this info helps & doesn't add to your confusion! By the way, every time I start ooVoo it tells me my device (SGT-P1000T) is not supported, so it's no surprise that there are a couple of glitches but it works pretty well.
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I just picked up my tab today.......US here.....tried fring firstand that works fine......just a fyi....
Does Oovoo allow Oovoo to PC (skype) connections by chance?
- is there an application that allows for tab - skype or tab to google video chat connectivity as well?
I'll try out these options, just curious, thank you,
dimov000 said:
install skype and qik which is from skype and you have a perfect working video chat application which I use to see my grandchilds in philipinnes from the netherlands in almost perfect video quality
Second possiblity is using a cobinnation of voip with video
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Everything I've read about Skype says they don't support the front facing camera on the Galaxy Tab. You're saying this is incorrect? Qik doesn't let you call computers.
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I just picked up my tab today.......US here.....tried fring firstand that works fine......just a fyi....
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Fring doesn't let you call computers.
When I take a video that is 1 minute long, and try to send this video via whatsapp, it will limit me to sending only 20 seconds of the video.
On other phones, Galaxy S3, and Nexus S, Nexus 5, it actually defaults to scale down the resolution of the video, and send the video in full.
1. Is this a problem with the phone or with whatsapp, I have sent a support email to whatsapp and haven't gotten any reply.
2. Is there an easy to use app that can help me to scale the video down before sending via whatsapp? I tried searching on playstore but they all seems complicated.
bump! I have tried some video converters, but they are not easy to use as compared to whatsapp scaling the video directly on other phones! Help.
So I recently bought The Moto X, amazing phone indeed, totally loving it.
I like the slow motion videos from this phone, but is there any possible way to get iPhone 5s like video app?
The one in which the video automatically, increases or decreases the speed of the videos in a really smart way while viewing the videos, when nothing much is happening the video automatically fasten ups and slow back when the main thing is being shown, are there any such smart apps for moto x slomo videos?
The stock gallery can do this. Tap the 3 dots menu after selecting the video in Gallery
i was having the same question but i thought it was not possible... i never knew the stock gallery had this option...thanks a lot man..
Also, is there any way to record sound while slow motion recording?
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I recently switched from the Z Flip 4 to the Pixel 7 256gb because I wanted the pure Google experience for a change. The one thing that I really miss from Samsung, is the ability to record a video with both the front and rear camera at the same time. I see that there is an app I can sideload to record from both, but Samsung took it a step further in that it took the front camera(selfie) and overlayed it on whatever the back camera was pointing at, and make a single picture in picture video output for you.
That way I don't have to take two different video files and edit them into a separate PiP video in post and have to synch the audio if I edit stuff out or add things in... Saves me time if I am recording an interview or doing a product review and want my face in the corner talking, while the larger main video portion is whomever I am talking to or whatever object I am reviewing or working on, etc...
Can this be done on a Pixel 7 without having to root it or jump through hoops? Samsung has been doing it in their stock camera app for years, and when I switched it never occurred to me that Google wouldn't already have that feature baked in as well.