well as someone who was responsible for some of those posts :-) i can say that yes the G1 camera code had some interesting problems with its preview handler and yes dealing with the YUV format in Java on the phone was prohibitively expensive.
the video camera interface is completely different, in the sense that you tell it what format you want, start and stop it, and then find a file with your stuff in it afterwards. AFAIK, there is no way of getting frames, beyond a thumbnail, and access to the mp4/3gp/etc file afterwards is limited to playing it in the media player. i'm doing what i think you want to do, but server-side, and i can't provide too many details of that since i'm under an NDA. hth j (copied privately due to insane list behaviour, which nobody @google seems to care about.) >A number of previous posts imply that attempts to apply bespoke image >processing on a Camera preview are hamstrung by a buggy API and will >in any event run extremely slowly due to the need to manually decode >the preview buffer. > >Can anyone comment on whether it is possible to use the video recorder >as an alternative means of achieving this? > >Thanks, > >Nick. > > -- jason.software.particle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
