Wikiwide | Camera is exhausting. I think it is a misconfiguration problem, but I do not see how that is possible - there are no options that could be misconfigured, to begin with. | 13:49 |
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Wikiwide | Camera crashes randomly. That can be attributed to: 1) lack of RAM; 2) wearing out hardware. Other applications, like Conversations, sometimes randomly crash, too. Not simultaneously. | 13:50 |
Wikiwide | Camera, when asked to take a video, writes down audio with black rectangle instead of whatever is happening in front of the camera. Very lightweight files... And very useless. It's like an audio recorder. | 13:51 |
KotCzarny | reinstall camera drivers if you have messed with them? | 13:55 |
Wikiwide | Haven't messed with them, I think. But just in case... How do I reinstall them? | 13:55 |
Maxdamantus | Wikiwide: how big is your DSCF directory? At some point my camera-ui was crashing until I moved the files out of there. | 13:56 |
bencoh | dpkg -S on relevant file, and reinstall package I guess | 13:56 |
KotCzarny | but also yeah, what maxd have said | 13:56 |
KotCzarny | maybe you have too many photos | 13:57 |
KotCzarny | :> | 13:57 |
* Maxdamantus just occasionally runs a script now that moves the photos into a directory based on the month. | 13:57 | |
KotCzarny | i think FAT had directory limit | 13:57 |
KotCzarny | but then, it wouldnt save files with audio? | 13:57 |
Maxdamantus | I don't think it was a FAT issue, since I would've been using ext[34] at the time. | 13:57 |
KotCzarny | so it's something with camera or it's drivers | 13:57 |
Wikiwide | DCIM is nearly 3k photographs, not counting videos. Is it sufficient to move files into DCIM's sub-directories? Or does it have to be located outside DCIM? | 13:59 |
KotCzarny | try both | 14:00 |
KotCzarny | starting with outside option | 14:00 |
Maxdamantus | Personally, I move them outside, so dunno if making subdirectories there is sufficientp | 14:01 |
Maxdamantus | (you can obviously try both) | 14:01 |
Wikiwide | Since I already have sub-directories inside DCIM, I will just move them over to .images aka Images. Will it help?.. | 14:01 |
Maxdamantus | Probably. | 14:02 |
Maxdamantus | btw, I use "QImageViewer" to view photos, which afair seemed to work better with non-standard directories than the built-in viewer. | 14:03 |
Wikiwide | See an example of video which has only black rectangle instead of whatever was in front of the camera: https://filebin.ca/4mpmxCcBHsqU/20190704_025.mp4 | 14:03 |
Maxdamantus | mpv/mplayer/ffmpeg all just say that file has no video track. | 14:07 |
Maxdamantus | (just an audio track) | 14:07 |
Wikiwide | Fits well enough. | 14:08 |
Maxdamantus | and extracting the audio stream results in a file the same size, so presumably there's no video anywhere in the file. | 14:09 |
Maxdamantus | (in case there was some theory about the media data not being created correctly at the end, since in MP4 that stuff is at the end of the file for some reason) | 14:10 |
Wikiwide | Question is, what can I reinstall to get camera to take videos? | 14:11 |
Maxdamantus | Presumably the main packages involved would be omap3camd, camera-ui | 14:13 |
Maxdamantus | and maybe libomap3cam | 14:13 |
Maxdamantus | I would try just clearing the directory and `killall omap3camd camera-ui` though. | 14:14 |
Wikiwide | killall omap3camd: Operation not permitted | 14:16 |
Maxdamantus | as root | 14:16 |
Maxdamantus | I don't actually know if killing omap3camd is important, but killing both was certainly a helpful temporary fix until I realised my problems went away when I just moved the files out of DCIM | 14:18 |
DocScrutinizer05 | the damn DSP blobs | 15:06 |
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