Thanks for your hand work freemangordon. The detail and quality is amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPoBlN0xlAM

I've followed all the steps from the first post but when I try to create a video the screen goes black so I can't see what I'm recording, I only see the time on the bottom right.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need another codecs or is it a dsp configuration problem? I use kernel-config load dsp.

tks a lot..that worked...but if in the future camera ui2 is integrated or updated via cssu, how can i unhold the updates?

1) simply write install in place of hold in the above commands or
2) use this...
apt-get upgrade --ignore-hold

@freemangordon:

See status of bug https://harmattan-bugs.nokia.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171 and last comment #4 from Felipe Contreras. Also write what other is needed for N900.

I would not expect TI to allow redistribution of *anything* - they have long history of acting like castle under siege. I suppose it's going to end like with jacekowski's modified binary - unofficial, yet still everyone own it.

As for gstreamer0.10-dsp, I wonder if version publicly available now is much different from Harmattan'ish one - it would be pointless to fix it if it require much hassle, as Nokia is f**kin obliged to release sources anyway.

/Estel

Ha ha, a .deb for installation was created right after I managed to use the old method! I must've been the last one to install this by using the Linux script. I had to edit it a lot to suit me, pick up the newest Oneclickflasher by luck. Boy, that was some work. Even reinstalled my Ubuntu once. But the 720p recording works like a dream -- thank you very much!

Is there anything that can be done to video quality?
Recorded files are missing focus and highly blurred - it`s really hard to tell if they are really 720p, without looking at their properties.

Thank You for all that work freemangordon.

u can either refocus the video by soft pressing camera key or use the keyboard ..... (shift+) G or F..during recording..

Yeah, saw it. Nothing new, those public binaries are available for long time ago. And as Felipe points they are missing h264 encoder. Plus MP4 encoder supports up to WVGA resolution. And are crap compared to stock n900 binaries. Maybe I missed the point but those are of no use.

Anyway, we don't need to redistribute codec binaries, it is pretty enough Nokia to distribute them in a way n900 apt to be able to access them without need to enable harmattan repo. Dedicated repo should be enough. Or something like that.

For gst-dsp from google.code - yeah, it works most of the time. But not always. And one of the major differences between harmattan gst-dsp and that on google.code is that in harmattan one codec binary to be loaded in DSP is selected based on video profile, not only on video fourcc. And it has never been tested with h264 encoder as such is missing in public binaries, so no videocall.

Anyway, it is a great success to have the author on the bugtracker. Seems my old account don't work there, so I will make a new one and will try to add some additional comments on the bug.

Big thanks again for your efforts.