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Is it possible to install another Codec for the Camcorder

Hey.
I`m annoyed from the audio quality when i record a video..
im running a 32B magic and i would like to record with higher audio quality,
so is there a way to change the audiodriver from amr to aac or something like that?
thank you

i was wondering the same thing myself the other day. not sure this is in the right forum tho
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Very good idea... I would suggest that you put a [REQUEST] tag on the thread title rather than in the current state it is in... I am very sure many are not bothering to read it since it sounds more like a question, and hence the contempt of most ppl in this forum for questions to be in dev section. Just my 2 cents.
But I love the idea of a better codec, especially since now we have access to an overclocked CPU to help with the encoding.

erlern said:
Very good idea... I would suggest that you put a [REQUEST] tag on the thread title rather than in the current state it is in... I am very sure many are not bothering to read it since it sounds more like a question, and hence the contempt of most ppl in this forum for questions to be in dev section. Just my 2 cents.
But I love the idea of a better codec, especially since now we have access to an overclocked CPU to help with the encoding.
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I second this. add the request tag

Your CPU is FAR too weak to encode video on the fly. Video encoding is by HARDWARE ENCODER. As a result, you can do no such thing.

lbcoder said:
Your CPU is FAR too weak to encode video on the fly. Video encoding is by HARDWARE ENCODER. As a result, you can do no such thing.
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what about the audio though? I really wish there was a way to improve audio quality of the camcorder..

speedysilwady said:
what about the audio though? I really wish there was a way to improve audio quality of the camcorder..
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Your main audio quality problem is caused by the microphone. You simply can't get decent audio quality with a tiny little garbage microphone. The audio encoding used really won't make much of a difference in overall quality.

Sound Quality on HTC Sensation

Ok. I CANNOT find a thread which talks about the DAC in Sensation. How is the sound quality through headphones on this? Any previous Nexus S /SGS owners who would like to compare the Voodoo with sensation? Does it have Wolfson DAC in it?

*cough*6postsbelowyours*cough*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093383

Lazzzara said:
*cough*6postsbelowyours*cough*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093383
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I read those but no one seems to confirm wolfson. If sensation has wolfson and get the voodoo project ported im getting it assuming bootloader is going to get cracked lol
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jay_993 said:
I read those but no one seems to confirm wolfson. If sensation has wolfson and get the voodoo project ported im getting it assuming bootloader is going to get cracked lol
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Hate to break it to you but Supercurio, the creator of Voodoo sound, doesn't give a %&$# about the Sensation. He already has his hands full with the SGSII. And according to his words, not mine, he described the Wolfson Media Hub 8994 as "mediocre." He seems to think that the preamp is more important in audio quality and I happen to agree. Oh and the chance of the Sensation having the Wolfson DAC is the chance that an ice cube has in hell. Hope for a better preamp instead or OTG DAC+AMP support.

Virtue94 said:
Hate to break it to you but Supercurio, the creator of Voodoo sound, doesn't give a %&$# about the Sensation. He already has his hands full with the SGSII. And according to his words, not mine, he described the Wolfson Media Hub 8994 as "mediocre." He seems to think that the preamp is more important in audio quality and I happen to agree. Oh and the chance of the Sensation having the Wolfson DAC is the chance that an ice cube has in hell. Hope for a better preamp instead or OTG DAC+AMP support.
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Yerr that's why I said "ported" because I remember Supercurio saying porting is possible
btw, I've been following supercurio for a long time and I cannot imagine to think that he would have thought the wolfson DAC is "mediocre" (obviously I may be wrong). If he thought so, he wouldn't have bothered with Voodoo Sound? Anyways thanks for the reply It seems time will tell everything.

jay_993 said:
Yerr that's why I said "ported" because I remember Supercurio saying porting is possible
btw, I've been following supercurio for a long time and I cannot imagine to think that he would have thought the wolfson DAC is "mediocre" (obviously I may be wrong). If he thought so, he wouldn't have bothered with Voodoo Sound? Anyways thanks for the reply It seems time will tell everything.
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Supercurio bothered to create Voodoo sound because he thought the preamp was "mind blowing" which he said in the same post as his DAC comment.
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Any updates on this? I would love to find out if someone made a way for us to update our sound capabilities without having to rely on CPU intensive apps such as volume plus. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I hate it, the only con for this phone. My speaker rattle when on highest.

What exactly is Voodoo audio?

I was over in the in the Development section and was reading threads and they were talking about voodoo audio not being able to inject blah blah blah something like that. so me question is. what exactly is voodoo audio and why do we need it?

Transformer27 said:
I was over in the in the Development section and was reading threads and they were talking about voodoo audio not being able to inject blah blah blah something like that. so me question is. what exactly is voodoo audio and why do we need it?
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OMG what a noob question LOL JK.
Its awesome it makes your headphones louder and it adjusts things that have to do with audio and recording audio.

lmao! is it just a Samsung thing? I have Motorola & HTC, and have never heard of this "Voodoo audio" but its good to know.
and is it just me or are these stock head phones the best with 5.1 sorround sound enabled?
i think i would die of they break or soemthing, how much are they?

About $10 on Amazon. I keep an extra pair on hand.
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really? can i have link to the legit ones. i saw some for 4.99 thats why i kinda asked seemed to cheap

Transformer27 said:
really? can i have link to the legit ones. i saw some for 4.99 thats why i kinda asked seemed to cheap
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I use the Studios, and they sound awesome. Yeah it only is a Samsung thing.

the voodoo label is a "supercurio" thing. he is a dev responsible for the ext4 lagfix and for sound and color improvments. the voodoo sound project is really his baby though. basically the original line of sgs phones the charge and the infuse all have a very good audio chip from wolfson. voodoo sound replaces the samsung driver with a driver that supercurio built wolfson sources. it also has an app that has audio controls and forces a higher digital volume and allows you to adjust the analog gain to reduce hiss and noise and increase overall fidelity.
it is not for all samsungs, just some sgs phones and a few other models, it will eventually come to the infuse. he also is working on a version for the lg transformer that has a wolfson headphone amp (different model) but the headroom is less and it is not as sophisticated as one samsung has. and also in the defence of the transformer supercurio said the code was much cleaner. i would assume the transformer has good audio out of the box and wont see a big improvement like you may see on the samsung.

On top if what dani said voodoo sound also had support for recording profiles allowing you to record loud things with less distortion.
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Voodoo lagfix is what we have been working on in the dev section, not voodoo audio.

Beats by DRE or what else I found on the portal

Well I am in the mood/ a mission to just royally mess up my phone today and luckily the portal is chock full of suggestions and mods to help me do just that.
The first I found was the GPS fix from earlier and now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523760
Beats by DRE for all Gingerbread roms.
I went through it a bit and it didnt seem like it was gonna mess with anything (mostly different files) so I went ahead and flashed it.
Everything is working fine and there doesnt seem to be any conflicts with Voodoo Sound. Does it improve the audio? I guess I am not enough of an audiofile to really know...
Just wanted to say that it seems safe to flash and throw it out as an option

Just to help people understand what Beats is (from what I know). It is more or less an audio filter that changes how the audio is processed coming from the device. It also changes the EQ curve some to accentuate the lower frequencies and then gives you a "distorted" output.

How can you tell if it installed correctly? is there any settings? Thanks.

As far as I can tell there no settings, and they are just under the hood enhancements.
Charged up post!

piizzadude said:
As far as I can tell there no settings, and they are just under the hood enhancements.
Charged up post!
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+1 Yeah, the reason I asked cause I couldn't tell the different after installed. I heard everyone swore that it's huge different in sound quality, well I guess not for me. Thanks.

buhohitr said:
+1 Yeah, the reason I asked cause I couldn't tell the different after installed. I heard everyone swore that it's huge different in sound quality, well I guess not for me. Thanks.
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it may have to do with the quality of the audio card in the charge. I felt like i noticed more of a difference when I flashed this on my kindle fire than I did on my charge.

BleedsOrangeandBlue said:
it may have to do with the quality of the audio card in the charge. I felt like i noticed more of a difference when I flashed this on my kindle fire than I did on my charge.
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The charge has one of the best DACs around on a phone... That's why voodoo sound works

JihadSquad said:
The charge has one of the best DACs around on a phone... That's why voodoo sound works
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That was my whole point... A device that renders sound exceptionally well is going to benefit less from minor software tweaks than one with a ****ty card that plays poorly out of the box.
Just because someone says "build quality" doesn't mean that they mean "bad build quality".

I think Beats sounds like crap anyway. It overemphasizes the bass and muddies up the mids. It's really intended for bass heavy music and doesn't really work well for anything else, IMO.

Beats... Audiophiles? Thanks for making me laugh this morning.
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Kernels

Hello guys I am just coming from s3 lte. And I got a question because on my s3 I used to use boeffla kernel + cm11. Ofcourse I am gona use xm11 on my nexus 5 too but here comes the question. Do you know any kernels for nexus 5 which are similar to the boeffla one? ( boeffla sound has the best equalizer I have ever been using on my phone) Big thanks.

wojwem19 said:
Hello guys I am just coming from s3 lte. And I got a question because on my s3 I used to use boeffla kernel + cm11. Ofcourse I am gona use xm11 on my nexus 5 too but here comes the question. Do you know any kernels for nexus 5 which are similar to the boeffla one? ( boeffla sound has the best equalizer I have ever been using on my phone) Big thanks.
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You can only use kernels that are CAF based like Elemental, Chaos and maybe others. Don't flash AOSP kernels with CM11. For sound control you may look at Viper4android or something like that. Check if it is compatible with CM11.
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Yeah definitely use viper over any kernel sound mods
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Thank you guys will do that

It says on the website that it is compatiable with ALL 4.4.2 ROMs

Here is the nexus 5 viper thread. Flashable zip is 2 pages from the end
[DISCUSSION] Viper4android
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543796
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I might have different opinion on Viper4Android. IMO, Nexus 5 soundchip is already awesome as it is and doesn't need V4A. I think what you need is a proper music player (i use poweramp myself which is very good for me) as the play music has crappy equalizer (shame though, a very nice interface)
IMHO, V4A sound effects are gimmicks and doesn't really give you the true performance of your soundchip. Don't get me wrong, i've tried V4A before because i think the Play Music sound quality is ugly, but then i didn't know that the phone itself is really great at producing high bitrate music (great also on flac). After i tried poweramp, i realized that V4A is just gimmick sound effect, not the true sound.
Again, every person's ear is different, you might have different opinion on V4A.
Give it a try and you'll know it yourself.

bufosp said:
I might have different opinion on Viper4Android. IMO, Nexus 5 soundchip is already awesome as it is and doesn't need V4A. I think what you need is a proper music player (i use poweramp myself which is very good for me) as the play music has crappy equalizer (shame though, a very nice interface)
IMHO, V4A sound effects are gimmicks and doesn't really give you the true performance of your soundchip. Don't get me wrong, i've tried V4A before because i think the Play Music sound quality is ugly, but then i didn't know that the phone itself is really great at producing high bitrate music (great also on flac). After i tried poweramp, i realized that V4A is just gimmick sound effect, not the true sound.
Again, every person's ear is different, you might have different opinion on V4A.
Give it a try and you'll know it yourself.
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I acctually bought poweramp for my self so I will just stick with it

bufosp said:
I might have different opinion on Viper4Android. IMO, Nexus 5 soundchip is already awesome as it is and doesn't need V4A. I think what you need is a proper music player (i use poweramp myself which is very good for me) as the play music has crappy equalizer (shame though, a very nice interface)
IMHO, V4A sound effects are gimmicks and doesn't really give you the true performance of your soundchip. Don't get me wrong, i've tried V4A before because i think the Play Music sound quality is ugly, but then i didn't know that the phone itself is really great at producing high bitrate music (great also on flac). After i tried poweramp, i realized that V4A is just gimmick sound effect, not the true sound.
Again, every person's ear is different, you might have different opinion on V4A.
Give it a try and you'll know it yourself.
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Actually there are effects in v4a but the main thing is being able to increase the sampling rate. I'm sorry to say but Poweramp with v4a is better than poweramp without v4a.
Maybe you misunderstand v4a.

rootSU said:
Actually there are effects in v4a but the main thing is being able to increase the sampling rate. I'm sorry to say but Poweramp with v4a is better than poweramp without v4a.
Maybe you misunderstand v4a.
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Than I am gona use v4a + poweramp

wojwem19 said:
Than I am gona use v4a + poweramp
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Try it.
The DAC we have is good, but it's not as clear as it could be.

I think you'll struggle to match the Wolfson DAC in recent Galaxy phones, especially when used with the DAC Direct option in Boeffla or VooDoo Sound.
Coming from a Note 2, sound quality is the first thing I noticed the N5 was lacking in. Not by much, but still noticeable. Also, if you use decent Bluetooth headphones then you may notice even worse quality as the N5 doesn't support the APT-X codec (obviously the headphones need to support this too).
I'm a long-time PowerAmp user but have only just got my N5 set-up with a custom ROM so still need to test out Viper.