[android-developers] Re: quick question on camera preview format

2008-10-26 Thread blindfold
Glad it was useful. In the mean-time I managed to fully decode the live camera preview. Funny is that whereas the SDK 1.0 r1 emulator only shows a grayscale view, the data array in onPreviewFrame() is actually a *color* view that looks identical to what I remember seeing in the older SDK M5 RC15

[android-developers] Re: quick question on camera preview format

2008-10-25 Thread blindfold
I'm not even sure whether Android's yuv422sp preview format represents any decent standard format, because with a previous SDK M5 RC15 we got a color preview on the emulator screen, whereas nowadays with SDK 1.0 r1 it shows as greyscale only. Moreover, although the preview array for me shows a

[android-developers] Re: quick question on camera preview format

2008-10-25 Thread blindfold
Actually, what I wrote before was when setting PixelFormat.JPEG, for which I noticed that setPreviewSize() took no effect whatsoever and always resulted in a default size of 176 x 144. I now found that if I select PixelFormat.YCbCr_422_SP, which may correspond to yuv422sp from its naming

[android-developers] Re: quick question on camera preview format

2008-10-22 Thread blindfold
Its encoding semantics do not seem specified anywhere. Also see reported issue 823, http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=823 which I hope will be resolved soon. Regards On Oct 22, 2:21 am, Jason Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's declared to be YUV422SP. so this is planar

[android-developers] Re: quick question on camera preview format

2008-10-22 Thread blindfold
I noticed that data.length in the callback gave twice the number of pixels, implying a 16 bits per pixel encoding as was discussed at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/434c60a275f3cc6f Does ffmpeg not have some properties dialog or something such that more