Palm Pre Video Recording Demo'd
Video recording was first achieved on the Palm Pre by homebrew developer cpcrook back at the beginning of August, via the Linux command-line, but until now nobody has released an easily-viewed demo into the wild. Jason Robitaille over at PreCentral has now uploaded a video put together by forum denizen zonyl to YouTube, so we can all sit back and feast on our eyes on the rather good-quality 320x480 @ 30fps results (especially in comparison to the hideous camcorder quality of previous Palm OS-based devices).
Jay has also created a simple homebrew service that can enable video recording right now, downloadable here and installable via WebOS Quick Install. Other WebOS Internals developers are also tinkering with gstreamer to get the Pre recording at its full 720x480 capabilities, and with video sink support to enable previewing as you record. You'll find the demo video embedded after the break.
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RE: should have been standard
The hackers have repeatedly demonstrated how simple it is, so that's the only explanation that really makes sense to me. Palm have bigger fish to fry.
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RE: should have been standard
RE: should have been standard
hsu wrote:
Why wasn't this functionality part of the phone out of the box? It's not like the aged Palm Treo couldn't do video recording.
My guess (and that's all it is) is that the functionality wasn't quite ready to be incorporated into WebOS. The current solution (at least, the one I have installed from a few days ago) uses a custom-written service and some behind the scenes shell scripting.
RE: should have been standard
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should have been standard