Frankly, I'm fine with the video quality. It could be a lot better but I don't use my phone for anything serious. The audio quality is horrid. I pulled a video into MediaCoder to find out why...
That is 12.8kbps at 8,000hz sampling rate.
To put this in perspective; A low quality MP3 is 64kbps at 44.1khz (44,100hz). That is 5 times the bit rate and more than 5 times the sampling rate.
A decent quality MP3 is at the very least 128kbps.
The audio that the Evo camcorder app is 1/5th the quality of a crappy MP3.
This is a rather simple software fix. I'm not a programmer but I know how audio and video codecs work and I see no reason for this limitation. The phone can record excellent quality audio. Just download a recording app and try it.
HTC or a third party developer needs to get on this.
Oh yeah, the reason the video is a bit jerky is that it is recorded at 10.01 FPS...
That is 12.8kbps at 8,000hz sampling rate.
To put this in perspective; A low quality MP3 is 64kbps at 44.1khz (44,100hz). That is 5 times the bit rate and more than 5 times the sampling rate.
A decent quality MP3 is at the very least 128kbps.
The audio that the Evo camcorder app is 1/5th the quality of a crappy MP3.
This is a rather simple software fix. I'm not a programmer but I know how audio and video codecs work and I see no reason for this limitation. The phone can record excellent quality audio. Just download a recording app and try it.
HTC or a third party developer needs to get on this.
Oh yeah, the reason the video is a bit jerky is that it is recorded at 10.01 FPS...