Record Video via Media Recorder

Hi everybody,

I have a question regarding the Android MediaRecorder - This class is driving me nuts. ;)

My test device
HTC Desire HD
Firmware 2.3.5

I want to write an app, which records a video. This should be implementet via the MediaRecorder (not via Intents).
On the Google-Developers site I found a "tutorial" (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html)

My problem:

I followed the whole tutorial.
When I'm starting my application on my test device it throws an exception ("start failed") at recorder.start() if I set the quality to high (CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_HIGH).
If I change the setting to QUALITY_LOW the app starts recording for 1-2 seconds. After that the screen freezes and my LogCat tracks the following errors:

• media server died!
• camera server died
• ICamera died

I also get ERROR 100

Hopefully you can help me.

Thanks and regards
Daniel