getSnapshot() with different image resolutions on SDK2.0 not working in emulator

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Hi People,

I am working on an application for S40 that uses the camera for reading QR Codes and I have tried to obtain higher resolutions pictures using the SDK 2.0/emulator.
However, the image is always 240x320 (the screen size), no matter what I do.

Some facts:

- getSnapshot() only works with null parameter, if I try to add picture sizes or image formats I have an exception
- yes, I used "System.getProperty("video.snapshot.encodings");" before to check available encodings. The response is "image/jpeg" but it is not accepted by getSnapshot()

Is this a problem with S40 emulator ? I will try to use a real device from today but any feedback on this issue is welcome.

Posts/Wiki entries that I have read:

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ure_in_Java_ME
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...hlight=picture size
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...hlight=picture size
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...hlight=picture size
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ht=getsnapshot
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ht=getsnapshot
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ht=getsnapshot
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ht=getsnapshot asha

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Silence ... bad sign

Could anyone confirm that getSnapshot() works with parameters on real ASHA devices (311, for example) ?

Marcelo

PS: Sorry for the wrong place. I started a message talking about media but it changed during writing and I finished up talking about emulator

[balagopalks]

Silence is not always a bad sign! There should be some thing cooking in the back ground!

I wanted to try this, but got busy with some thing else. In the mean while, I checked and got confirmed that in emulator it supports only 240x320, but in the real device you can get higher resolutions.

Regards
Gopal

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Hi Gopal

Silence is not always a bad sign! There should be some thing cooking in the back ground!

Never, but never, underestimate a champion ...

I wanted to try this, but got busy with some thing else. In the mean while, I checked and got confirmed that in emulator it supports only 240x320, but in the real device you can get higher resolutions.l

I had time to test it, finally. It seems some emulator limitation at the end.
My Asha 311 is working with additional parameters for getSnapshot().

Thanks, Gopal.

Marcelo

[Adi.Stoicuta]

Maybe because the emulator is actually Asha 305 ?

[balagopalks]

Maybe because the emulator is actually Asha 305 ?

The confirmation I have got from SDK team is, from the Emulator, captured images will be of size 240x320 - its the expected behaviour.

Regards
Gopal

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

The confirmation I have got from SDK team is, from the Emulator, captured images will be of size 240x320 - its the expected behaviour.
l

Great, Gopal. Now it is crystal clear.
Thanks a lot.

[TK2000]

Hello Marcelo, hopefully not too late =)
I made a simple example and tested on Nokia X3-02 ​​and Asha 305.

byte [] imageData = videoControl.getSnapshot ("encoding = jpeg & quality = 100 & width = 640 & height = 480");

I got a satisfactory result but strange:
In the X3-02: only VGA (640x480), with higher resolutions the app crashed;
In the Asha 305: images with 400x300 pixels (even putting 640x480) and 1.2MP (1280x960) ...

I'll do more tests and try to see what is happening and try to at least VGA resolution in all devices, because I believe that for simplest devices, larger images will be a problem because of the device memory.

[balagopalks]

@TK2000 - I guess the higher resolutions crashed may be because of OutOfMemory ? Does it crash with any exception ?

Regards
Gopal

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Thanks a lot TK2000 !

It is likely that you have an "out of memory problem" when the app crashes.
About the different resolutions: the phone can choose the nearest (lower) resolutions if the specified it is not found.