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How to record the video using camera preview on TextureView

Asked 2012-03-20T17:33:18.997
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I have been playing with TextureView on some Android 4.0 devices. For example, I tried to develop a simple app, which can record the video and uses TextureView for its preview. However, as far as I read the Android API documents, standard MediaRecorder requires certain surface in order to perform video recording, but on the other hand, TextureView does not have its own surface anymore, so an incompatibility between TextureView and MediaRecorder seems exist.

MediaRecorder.setPreviewDisplay

TextureView

Does anyone know how to record video using standard MediaRecorder with TextureView as its camera preview? Or is there any way to record video other than MediaRecorder?

Thank you very much.

android android-4.0-ice-cream-sandwich mediarecorder
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According to this issue, on Jelly Bean and higher, you simply don't call setPreviewDisplay(), and MediaRecorder will automatically use the preview used by the Camera. I can confirm that not calling setPreviewDisplay() does indeed work, at least on Android 4.2, when the Camera preview is set to be a TextureView. I have not yet tried this on older Android versions to confirm that 4.1 works.

This does leave a bit of a gap, in that Android 3.0-4.0 devices perhaps cannot use TextureView for previews.

answered 2013-06-14T13:26:10.373

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