QMediaRecorder and QCamera not recording video

[avuokila]

Hi,

I am having some troubles with QMediaRecorder and QCamera. I am trying to start video capturing but simulator or Nokia C7 phone does not find any video codecs. supportedVideoCodecs() gives empty list in both devices. If i am trying to record audio supportedAudioCodecs() gives pcm in simulator and pcm and amr in phone. Also when I try isCaptureModeSupported(QCamera::CaptureVideo) it gives false value on simulator and phone. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and Qt SDK 1.1 Beta

Some piece of my code:

QByteArray cameraDevice = QCamera::availableDevices()[0];
        camera = new QCamera(cameraDevice);
        camera->setCaptureMode(QCamera::CaptureVideo);
        recorder = new QMediaRecorder(camera);

        camera->load();
        viewfinder = new QCameraViewfinder(this);

        camera->setViewfinder(viewfinder);

        camera->start();
        ...
        recorder->record();

also in .pro file i have set

CONFIG += mobility
MOBILITY += multimedia


symbian {

    TARGET.CAPABILITY += ReadDeviceData WriteDeviceData AllFiles UserEnvironment

 
}

sincerely,

Arto

[witsku]

Have you configured your Qt properly for Symbian?
If the correct (i.e. Symbian) camera backend is loaded the isCaptureModeSupported(QCamera::CaptureVideo) should always return true when running on device.

[avuokila]

Yeah, my fail. I didn't notice it was recording randomly and now I'm wondering why. Sometimes QMediaRecorder makes phone crash so badly that i have to remove battery to recover and sometimes phone just makes warm boot by itself. Before crash qmediarecorder gives resource error and usally camera resources are lost too. Usually everything is working fine after boot, but when I start application second or third time it crashes. Crash appears only when I start recording. Other functionality is working fine.

[witsku]

What resolution are you recording and if HD, are you using raster graphics?
Recording HD video is very memory consuming and there's not too much memory for both video/graphics on Symbian^3 devices.
Thus it's recommended to use raster (i.e. SW rendered graphics) on Symbian^3 devices if using camera.