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Jul 04 11:49:04 <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.
Jul 04 11:50:12 <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.
Jul 04 11:51:55 <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.
Jul 04 11:55:06 <KotCzarny> reinstall camera drivers if you have messed with them?
Jul 04 11:55:53 <Wikiwide> Haven't messed with them, I think. But just in case... How do I reinstall them?
Jul 04 11:56:36 <Maxdamantus> Wikiwide: how big is your DSCF directory? At some point my camera-ui was crashing until I moved the files out of there.
Jul 04 11:56:37 <bencoh> dpkg -S on relevant file, and reinstall package I guess
Jul 04 11:56:56 <KotCzarny> but also yeah, what maxd have said
Jul 04 11:57:02 <KotCzarny> maybe you have too many photos
Jul 04 11:57:03 <KotCzarny> :>
Jul 04 11:57:15 * Maxdamantus just occasionally runs a script now that moves the photos into a directory based on the month.
Jul 04 11:57:16 <KotCzarny> i think FAT had directory limit
Jul 04 11:57:37 <KotCzarny> but then, it wouldnt save files with audio?
Jul 04 11:57:47 <Maxdamantus> I don't think it was a FAT issue, since I would've been using ext[34] at the time.
Jul 04 11:57:49 <KotCzarny> so it's something with camera or it's drivers
Jul 04 11:59:10 <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?
Jul 04 12:00:21 <KotCzarny> try both
Jul 04 12:00:36 <KotCzarny> starting with outside option
Jul 04 12:01:04 <Maxdamantus> Personally, I move them outside, so dunno if making subdirectories there is sufficientp
Jul 04 12:01:18 <Maxdamantus> (you can obviously try both)
Jul 04 12:01:51 <Wikiwide> Since I already have sub-directories inside DCIM, I will just move them over to .images aka Images. Will it help?..
Jul 04 12:02:40 <Maxdamantus> Probably.
Jul 04 12:03:20 <Maxdamantus> btw, I use "QImageViewer" to view photos, which afair seemed to work better with non-standard directories than the built-in viewer.
Jul 04 12:03:28 <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 
Jul 04 12:07:42 <Maxdamantus> mpv/mplayer/ffmpeg all just say that file has no video track.
Jul 04 12:07:49 <Maxdamantus> (just an audio track)
Jul 04 12:08:23 <Wikiwide> Fits well enough.
Jul 04 12:09:19 <Maxdamantus> and extracting the audio stream results in a file the same size, so presumably there's no video anywhere in the file.
Jul 04 12:10:06 <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)
Jul 04 12:11:53 <Wikiwide> Question is, what can I reinstall to get camera to take videos?
Jul 04 12:13:19 <Maxdamantus> Presumably the main packages involved would be omap3camd, camera-ui
Jul 04 12:13:42 <Maxdamantus> and maybe libomap3cam
Jul 04 12:14:21 <Maxdamantus> I would try just clearing the directory and `killall omap3camd camera-ui` though.
Jul 04 12:16:49 <Wikiwide> killall omap3camd: Operation not permitted
Jul 04 12:16:58 <Maxdamantus> as root
Jul 04 12:18:00 <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
Jul 04 13:06:44 <DocScrutinizer05> the damn DSP blobs
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