Yes that would be 720p which means you aren't recording at 1080p which the phone can obviously do regardless of the fact that the screen display is only 1280x720.
Another way to double check if you want is to copy the video over to a PC and see what the file properties say. Either way, just because the phone's display is only 720 doesn't mean you can't still record at 1080. Every video I have recorded when I go to details in the gallery it says 1920x1080. But I'm on TW 4.1.2. Sorry I can't be of more help since I'm not running this rom.
This is wrong. You can check the recorded video resolution in the gallery, but when watching the video it will downscale to 1280x720.
I had thought that it showed at least in the info it was 1080 or 720 and as you said downscales when "playing" only. I remember seeing that before, but wasn't 100% sure if I was remembering it correctly....but you confirmed my memory hasn't failed me yet.
As for the 1080 recording, I guess cm11 doesn't allow this....that or it has issues with it r else the gallery/camera being used isn't working in cm11.....not really sure, but I know for a fact the phone DOES do 1080, just not working with cm11 for whatever reason.
As mch as I love cm/aosp base roms, it sure does seem the samsung phones have real issues in spots with those base roms.
I may switch back to TW and just use wanam xposed mod and be happy with that, then I know at least everything will work.
Most everything on this rom works, except for a few quirks here and there, and all the tweaking (IE: the sound being really low volume) and adjusting you have ta do, ugh! what a nightmare.
I tried MOAR rom, but it had an issue when I adjusted one of the settings (can't recall what it was off hand) but it sent me to a systemui loop......even a reboot didn't fix it, becuase once I got booted back up it started the loop all over again. That was enough to steer me away from that.
I think this go round I am going to go with jdsingles mk5 stock base rom, and add in wanam xposed mod.
One ting I lack though is a volume mod/hack for this phone. I tried viper4android out, but I don't know if it actually worked or not, just didn't seem as loud as it did on this cm rom.