I'm creating a video capture activity for an app I'm making, and I want to capture a preview frame as well to use as a playback button. I've set the SurfaceView
up in onCreate(...)
and hooked up the camera's preview display in the SurfaceHolder.Callback
:
private Callback mSurfaceViewCallback = new Callback() {
@Override
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
mSurfaceCreated = false;
}
@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
try {
mSurfaceCreated = true;
mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
@Override
public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width,
int height) {
try {
mSurfaceCreated = true;
mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
which worked fine for the static camera application. Camera preview is switched on and off in onPause()
and onResume()
:
@Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
if(mCamera!=null)
mCamera.startPreview();
}
@Override
protected void onPause() {
if(mCamera!=null)
mCamera.stopPreview();
super.onPause();
}
and I've set the MediaRecorder
up like this:
protected void startRecording() {
mMediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder();
mCamera.unlock();
mMediaRecorder.setCamera(mCamera);
mMediaRecorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.CAMCORDER);
mMediaRecorder.setVideoSource(MediaRecorder.VideoSource.CAMERA);
mMediaRecorder.setProfile(CamcorderProfile.get(CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_LOW));
mMediaRecorder.setMaxDuration(10000);
mMediaRecorder.setOutputFile(new File(getFilesDir(), mChallengeUUID + ".mp4").getAbsolutePath());
mMediaRecorder.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder.getSurface());
try {
mMediaRecorder.prepare();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
mCamera.setOneShotPreviewCallback(mPreviewCallback);
mMediaRecorder.start();
}
That penultimate line, however, isn't working. My Camera.PreviewCallback
's onPreviewFrame(...)
method is being missed.
The purpose of having it is, as I say, to get a frame from the beginning of when the video is being recorded to display to the user. Why isn't the callback being hit?