Default recording settings for Camera

[Warwick_Tech]

Hey All,

 

In amongst the extra workloads we all have recently I wanted to move away from these cheap video recorders they use in dance/drama/english etc. so I bought some cameras that record using the 'camera' app on Windows 10

 

The issue is a 30 minute video is upwards of 5GB+ so add in several departments and there's not enough space for everyone!

 

I found a script here ages ago (thanks to MavHC)

 

https://github.com/mavhc/shrink-video-recursive-python/blob/master/shrink-recursive.py

 

But is there a way to set a gpo or regedit to make all videos record at a lower resolution? 720 instead of 1080 for example?

 

Or even better, record them directly to Stream/OneDrive as we are still having them not upload the videos to the cloud.

 

EDIT

 

The following threads might of interest if you want to script the video conversion using handbrake-cli or ffmpeg...

 

• www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/205511-pe-video-files-storage.html#post1757221 (VideoConvertV1.ps1 by @DrCheese)
  
• www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/194363-reduce-video-size.html#post1712152 (PowerShell script by @FishCustard)
  
• www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/194363-reduce-video-size.html#post1661703 (shrink-recursive.py by @mavhc)
  

 

there's also these scripts;

 

But I'm after a way of setting the default before the video is recorded.

Edited March 13, 2020 by Warwick_Tech

[Warwick_Tech]

Another thought I had, was there a PS script to auto upload all the video footage to stream (office 365) and delete the originals?

[mavhc]

In general you're always going to get a 50% reduction by recompressing video after it's recorded because you can know the future at that point.

 

UWP apps store their data in settings.dat files, which are registry hives it seems

 

https://www.damirscorner.com/blog/posts/20150117-ManipulatingSettingsDatFileWithSettingsFromWindowsStoreApps.html

 

c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsCamera_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings

[Warwick_Tech]

In general you're always going to get a 50% reduction by recompressing video after it's recorded because you can know the future at that point.

 

UWP apps store their data in settings.dat files, which are registry hives it seems

 

https://www.damirscorner.com/blog/posts/20150117-ManipulatingSettingsDatFileWithSettingsFromWindowsStoreApps.html

 

c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsCamera_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings

 

Assuming the app identifier is always WindowsCamera_8wekyb3d8bbwe,#

 

I figured this would be an unlikely fix!