There's someone on youtube who claims to have been able to modify the hardware of the N900 to capture 1080p video. The poster is German, and I failed at using a translator, so anyone want to give it a try and ask the poster how he/she did it?
According to the videographer on youtube (and google translate), it seems there is a hardware regulator he accessed by removing the rear cover and battery, and there is some reference to a silver tray so maybe the battery tray covers something interesting.
this is just a random idea that probably won't work be heres what i come up with.
as vlc 1.1 now uses the dsp is there a way we could make it access/open the camera and capture it to a file and achieve 720p this way, or contact/help the vlc devs to see if this would be possible to do or add?
thanks
N900 has basically the same hardware. Just not the drivers and the software to do the same.
If Samsung can do it with the same hardware using Symbian S60 OS, why can't Nokia do it.
Why can't Motorola do it (the Droid as shipped also does not do 720p) ? Samsung is secret saucing there. The hardware is originally NOT meant for 720p and TI is not selling it as such. Whether they cheat, funk with frame or bitrate, have extra hardware besides the OMAP3, I don't know, but the 3430 is no HD chip.
As for stutters - my experience is that it happens due to either swapping or some background tasks mucking around (usually it's not the task per se but the disk activity is generates).
