Illegal Exception on MediaCodec.configure

I am trying to learn to encode a mp4 or any sort of video file using the Camera's onPreviewFrame call back.

Currently, I am trying the example codes from this post

Encoding H.264 from camera with Android MediaCodec

Unfortunately, I am keep getting an IllegalException on the

mediaCodec.configure(mediaFormat, null, null, MediaCodec.CONFIGURE_FLAG_ENCODE);

From another post IllegalStateException when MediaCodec.configure Android, I notice that are some mandatory values I have to set for the MediaCodec.

I tried all the mandatory mediacodec's mandatory values but still no luck of getting past

the IllegalException.

Now I am kinda of running out of ideas to try. Any suggestions, opinions or hints would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

11-04 12:27:14.785      175-894/? E/mm-libcamera2﹕ PROFILE HAL: stopPreview(): E: 1383596834.803557773
11-04 12:27:14.795      175-175/? E/OMXNodeInstance﹕ !!! Observer died. Quickly, do something, ... anything...
11-04 12:27:14.795     208-5797/? E/mm-camera﹕ config_shutdown_pp Camera not in streaming mode. Returning.
11-04 12:27:14.795     208-5797/? E/mm-camera﹕ vfe_ops_deinit: E
11-04 12:27:14.825     175-5814/? E/OMX-VENC-720p﹕ ioctl VEN_IOCTL_CMD_READ_NEXT_MSG failed
11-04 12:27:14.825      175-175/? E/OMX-VENC-720p﹕ Destroy C2D instance
11-04 12:27:14.835      527-539/? E/qcom_sensors_hal﹕ hal_process_report_ind: Bad item quality: 11
11-04 12:28:17.642    6241-6247/? E/jdwp﹕ Failed sending reply to debugger: Broken pipe
11-04 12:28:17.912      527-539/? E/qcom_sensors_hal﹕ hal_process_report_ind: Bad item quality: 11
11-04 12:28:17.922     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ sensor_load_chromatix: libchromatix_imx111_preview.so: 30
11-04 12:28:18.032     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ vfe_ops_init: E
11-04 12:28:18.042     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ vfe_legacy_stats_buffer_init: AEC_STATS_BUFNUM
11-04 12:28:18.052     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ vfe_legacy_stats_buffer_init: AEC_STATS_BUFNUM
11-04 12:28:18.052     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ mctl_init_stats_proc_info: snap_max_line_cnt =30096
11-04 12:28:18.213    6241-6241/? E/CamcorderProfile﹕ width: 720
11-04 12:28:18.213    6241-6241/? E/CamcorderProfile﹕ height: 480
11-04 12:28:18.213    6241-6241/? E/CamcorderProfile﹕ audioSampleRate: 48000
11-04 12:28:18.213    6241-6241/? E/CamcorderProfile﹕ videoBitRate: 5000000
11-04 12:28:18.213    6241-6241/? E/CamcorderProfile﹕ videoFrameRate: 30
11-04 12:28:18.233      175-617/? E/OMX-VENC-720p﹕ Is component secure 0
11-04 12:28:18.263    6241-6280/? E/ACodec﹕ [OMX.qcom.video.encoder.avc] does not support color format 19
11-04 12:28:18.263    6241-6280/? E/ACodec﹕ [OMX.qcom.video.encoder.avc] configureCodec returning error -2147483648
11-04 12:28:18.263    6241-6279/? E/MediaCodec﹕ Codec reported an error. (omx error 0x80001001, internalError -2147483648)
11-04 12:28:18.263    6241-6241/? E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.IllegalStateException
            at android.media.MediaCodec.native_configure(Native Method)
            at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:259)
            at com.example.mediacodec.AvcEncoder.<init>(AvcEncoder.java:40)
            at com.example.mediacodec.Preview.surfaceCreated(MediaCodecActivity.java:304)
            at android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:571)
            at android.view.SurfaceView.access$000(SurfaceView.java:86)
            at android.view.SurfaceView$3.onPreDraw(SurfaceView.java:175)
            at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:833)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1860)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1004)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5481)
            at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:749)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:562)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:532)
            at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:735)
            at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
            at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-04 12:28:20.135      175-617/? E/mm-libcamera2﹕ PROFILE HAL: stopPreview(): E: 1383596900.149872429
11-04 12:28:20.135      175-575/? E/OMXNodeInstance﹕ !!! Observer died. Quickly, do something, ... anything...
11-04 12:28:20.135     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ config_shutdown_pp Camera not in streaming mode. Returning.
11-04 12:28:20.145     208-6264/? E/mm-camera﹕ vfe_ops_deinit: E
11-04 12:28:20.165     175-6283/? E/OMX-VENC-720p﹕ ioctl VEN_IOCTL_CMD_READ_NEXT_MSG failed
11-04 12:28:20.165      175-575/? E/OMX-VENC-720p﹕ Destroy C2D instance
11-04 12:28:20.195      527-539/? E/qcom_sensors_hal﹕ hal_process_report_ind: Bad item quality: 11

E/ACodec﹕ [OMX.qcom.video.encoder.avc] does not support color format 19

Looks like you're trying to use color format 19 (COLOR_FormatYUV420Planar, a/k/a I420) on a Qualcomm device. A quick test on one of my devices indicates their codecs want color format 21 (COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar, a/k/a NV12).

The buffer-to-buffer tests in the EncodeDecodeTest sources show how to query the MediaCodecInfo for an appropriate color format. Since you are receiving input from the Camera, you will want to set the preview format to a semi-planar layout (NV21), and then do the U/V swap before handing it to the MediaCodec.

If you have Android 4.3 or later, you can skip all of the format gymnastics and use the Surface preview output. See the CameraToMpegTest sources for an example.