I am trying to capture video via Gallery or via Camera. I am able to successfully fetch the video from Gallery. However when I try to record the video from camera it loses the track and I am unable to fetch the path. It does save the video on path. The log give following error/warning. Why is is losing track of the video recorder? Where am I going wrong?
2022-03-15 07:32:08.683 14318-14318/com.example.locationfetcher_v2 W/MirrorManager: this model don't Support
2022-03-15 07:32:13.864 14318-14318/com.example.locationfetcher_v2 D/DecorView: createDecorCaptionView windowingMode:1 mWindowMode 1 isFullscreen: true
2022-03-15 07:32:14.875 14318-14318/com.example.locationfetcher_v2 I/Timeline: Timeline: Activity_launch_request time:174742145
2022-03-15 07:32:14.912 14318-14395/com.example.locationfetcher_v2 D/OpenGLRenderer: endAllActiveAnimators on 0xb400007e4ade6e00 (AlertController$RecycleListView) with handle 0xb400007e52639220
2022-03-15 07:32:20.913 14318-14339/com.example.locationfetcher_v2 W/System: A resource failed to call close
Here is my code:
public void showPictureDialog(View view){
AlertDialog.Builder pictureDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
pictureDialog.setTitle("Select Action");
String[] pictureDialogItems = {
"Select video from gallery",
"Record video from camera" };
pictureDialog.setItems(pictureDialogItems,
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
switch (which) {
case 0:
chooseVideoFromGallery();
break;
case 1:
takeVideoFromCamera();
break;
}
}
});
pictureDialog.show();
}
public void chooseVideoFromGallery() {
Intent galleryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
android.provider.MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(galleryIntent, PICK_VIDEO_GALLERY);
}
private void takeVideoFromCamera() {
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_VIDEO_QUALITY, 1);
startActivity(intent);
}
public String getPath(Uri uri) {
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA };
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
if (cursor != null) {
// HERE YOU WILL GET A NULLPOINTER IF CURSOR IS NULL
// THIS CAN BE, IF YOU USED OI FILE MANAGER FOR PICKING THE MEDIA
int column_index = cursor
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
return cursor.getString(column_index);
} else
return null;
}
private void saveVideoToInternalStorage (String filePath) {
File newfile;
try {
File currentFile = new File(filePath);
// show_notification("New File Video:" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory());
File wallpaperDirectory = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + VIDEO_DIRECTORY);
newfile = new File(wallpaperDirectory, Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis() + ".mp4");
if (!wallpaperDirectory.exists()) {
wallpaperDirectory.mkdirs();
}
if(currentFile.exists()){
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(currentFile);
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(newfile);
// Copy the bits from instream to outstream
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
out.write(buf, 0, len);
}
in.close();
out.close();
show_notification("Video file saved successfully.");
}else{
show_notification("Video saving failed. Source file missing.");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
show_notification(e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
}
@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.Q)
@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
inputStreamImg = null;
if (requestCode == PICK_VIDEO_GALLERY){
if (data != null) {
Uri contentURI = data.getData();
String selectedVideoPath = getPath(contentURI);
Log.d("path",selectedVideoPath);
// show_notification("Saving...");
saveVideoToInternalStorage(selectedVideoPath);
vidView.setVideoURI(contentURI);
vidView.requestFocus();
vidView.start();
videoPath = selectedVideoPath;
show_notification("video Gallery - " + videoPath);
} else if (requestCode == PICK_VIDEO_CAMERA) {
Uri contentURI = data.getData();
show_notification(contentURI.getPath());
String recordedVideoPath = getPath(contentURI);
show_notification(recordedVideoPath);
saveVideoToInternalStorage(recordedVideoPath);
videoPath = recordedVideoPath;
vidView.setVideoURI(contentURI);
vidView.requestFocus();
vidView.start();
show_notification("video Camera - " + videoPath);
}
}
}
3
Answers
I don’t know if it will help but maybe you should do startActivityForResult or ActivtyResultLauncher. I would comment that if I had enough reputation.
Have you added record permission to you android manifest
Also,
Can you remove this
@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.Q)
or handle case when target is not equal to Build.VERSION_CODES.QYou are unable to get the video path due to the below errors:
1.In your
takeVideoFromCamera()
method you start the intent using thestartActivity(intent);
instead ofstartActivityForResult(intent, PICK_VIDEO_CAMERA);
so theonActivityResult()
cannot be called to retrieve the video path. So you have to change your code like the below:2.After you make the above change the
onActivityResult()
gets called correctly but you are not handle correct the response because the statement ofrequestCode == PICK_VIDEO_CAMERA
is inside the statement ofif (requestCode == PICK_VIDEO_GALLERY){}
. So you have to modify this like the below:Because the
startActivityForResult()
now is deprecated i would suggest to change this using the new standard way which is theActivityResultContracts.StartActivityForResult()
by modifying your code to be like the below: