Indeed Android camera input support is currently fragile at best. Filed as issue 1129 at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1129
On Oct 30, 3:02 am, Jason Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i have an application which opens a Camera and then installs itself > as a preview frame handler. it then logs frames to the disk, gzipping > them on the way so as to keep the file size manageable. this > application works like a charm under the emulator. > > however on theG1, all shit breaks loose. the VM runs out of memory > almost immediately and, after a few flailing attempts to deal with > the situation, crashes with a SIGSEGV. > > in order to take my code out of the equation, i installed the > ApiDemos application on theG1and messed around with its Camera > Preview stuff. no problem there. so then i installed some > frame-writing code in a preview handler and got the same results as > my application. i took the gzipping out, logging the frames raw, and > the VM survived quite a bit longer before dying. > > conclusion 1: something in the hardware Camera code really doesn't > like clients doing stuff in the preview frame handler, and > catastrophe results. > > conclusion 2: i am starting to suspect a conspiracy which is trying > to prevent anyone capturing video on Android ;-) > > i'll probablylogthis as a bug tonight, with accompanying crash logs etc. > > thanks, > j --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
