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Video Recording Choppy

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Jbartu

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I recorded an outdoor video, this afternoon. When I played it back, I noticed it was choppy at times. Has anyone else encountered similar results?
 
Are you saving the video to an SD card or the phone's internal memory? I've found recording to the SD card causes choppy playback, I assume because it takes a bit longer to write to the card than it does to the internal memory, especially at HD resolution.
 
It was saved to the internal memory. I just saved it to a card and tried it in my Maxx. It ran smoothly. So the video is fine, it's just playback on the S3. YouTube video runs perfect.
 
Maybe your S3 was running low on memory and/or had a lot or processes hogging the CPU?

Are you also recording at 1080? Maybe run with a lower resolution to ease up on the phone's resources?
 
My memory is fairly free. What I don't understand is that a 1080p video from YouTube runs flawlessly, but my recorded video runs poorly. Yet, the video runs prefect on my Maxx, which should be more taxed than my S3.
 
You guys have anti-shake on for camera and video?

I also find my video tries to focus itsself pretty often, kinda annoying
 
I tried Mobo and MX player, same results. So no one else is having this issue when playing a 1080p video, recorded on the S3?
 
Jbartu said:
I tried Mobo and MX player, same results. So no one else is having this issue when playing a 1080p video, recorded on the S3?
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I am when reviewing video I took. Doesn't seem to do it every time though. It's kinda weird. I took lots of video outside at the super bike races today and lots of them are really choppy. I haven't downloaded them to my computer yet though so can't tell you if it recorded like that or if it's just the phone. It also seemed like it kept trying to focus every few seconds. I'd post the vids but I don't have those privileges yet. I am gonna take the phone in to get looked at tomorrow and hopefully get it fixed or replaced.
 
Turbodc2 said:
I am when reviewing video I took. Doesn't seem to do it every time though. It's kinda weird. I took lots of video outside at the super bike races today and lots of them are really choppy. I haven't downloaded them to my computer yet though so can't tell you if it recorded like that or if it's just the phone. It also seemed like it kept trying to focus every few seconds. I'd post the vids but I don't have those privileges yet. I am gonna take the phone in to get looked at tomorrow and hopefully get it fixed or replaced.
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I think it may be a software issue. I used the sd card from my Maxx and played the 1080p video taken on that phone; it ran perfect on the S3. For some reason the video recorded on the S3 is the only video I am having an issue with.

Please post an update, after you take the phone in.
 
i think it might be an issue with internal memory. I think im gonna try getting a CLASS 10 Memory and record video to that. I think it needs that so it can read and write faster.
 
scooz16 said:
You guys have anti-shake on for camera and video?

I also find my video tries to focus itsself pretty often, kinda annoying
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My anti-shake works the opposite of what you'd think. Turn it on and it's prone to shake, turn it off and it's steadier. Go figure.
 
rjn80 said:
i think it might be an issue with internal memory. I think im gonna try getting a CLASS 10 Memory and record video to that. I think it needs that so it can read and write faster.
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That wouldn't explain why the 1080p video recorded on my Maxx, using the microsd from the Maxx, runs fine on the S3, but the 1080p recorded on my S3, and saved on that same microsd, runs choppy on the S3 but fine on the Maxx. There seems to be some issue with the S3 recorded format which conflicts with playback on the S3. Doesn't make much sense, but I can't think of a better explanation.
 
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