Video: Bitrate/compression (quality) cannot be (directly) configured

[Chealer]

Secure Camera 74 can record videos. The resulting files are compressed using a lossy codec/format like H.265 (which currently cannot be chosen). Unfortunately, the extent of that compression and the resulting quality cannot be controlled directly. At 1920x1080, videos taken on a Google Pixel 6 are stored in files which occupy about 2 MB/s, which is very large for most videos (casual/informal memories recorded by citizens). In other words, a 2-minute recording would require approximately 240 MB in this context.

Secure Camera should let users configure the size/quality tradeoff somehow, either with a potentially subjective Video Quality setting similar to the existing Image Quality, or with a bit rate setting to control the compression's aggressiveness. A setting for an average bitrate would satisfy me.

Android's stock application also lacks this. Open Camera is one alternative application which allows a fair control over bitrate (but which is unfortunately considerably more complicated than Secure Camera).

I strongly suggest to not only allow configuration, but to either:

1. lower default quality*
2. or prompt the user.

*: I very much suspect Google's choice of default bitrate/compression for Android is influenced by the services its offers (Google One charges >20 €/year to store up to 100 GB of data, and its opinion about optimal quality is therefore highly biased).