yeah for me too ICS looks super cool and awesome, the good part is that the OS itself looks awesome without any custom rom over it (not taking the performance part) say GB was also boring for me but MIUI made Android interesting for me
and now I understand why Google is asking the manufacturers not to touch the OS part with their own customizations i.e. TouchWiz (Samsung), Sence (HTC) etc..
I have used the latest gapps Feb 13 and there is a camera fix too mentioned in the same link and now the camera works fine, again not all the time. Regarding the vides I use MoboPlayer and play the vides using Soft decoding and they work fine..

I have used the latest gapps Feb 13 and there is a camera fix too mentioned in the same link and now the camera works fine, again not all the time. Regarding the vides I use MoboPlayer and play the vides using Soft decoding and they work fine..