MediaRecorder.stop() hanging with Android 4.0 (ICS)

Question

When calling stop() within my Video Capture activity, on occasion, the software will hang and will not come back to life. Only triggering an ANR by hitting \"Back\

Answer 1

I also got a error like this. My activity contains a mutative SurfaceView that display preview，so after I start recording， the width of SurfaceView shrinked，and I could not stop the recording， get the ANR error。 I sovle the problem by fix the SurfaceView's dimension。 Hope it helpful