How to know when MediaRecorder has finished writing data to file

Question

We\'re using MediaRecorder to record video to a file on the external storage using setOutputFile() before doing the actual recording.

Everything works fine, but the main

Answer 1

We solved similar problem with the following algo:

while (file not complete)
    sleep for 1 sec
    read the fourth byte of the file
    if it is not 0 (contains 'f' of the 'ftyp' header) then
        file is complete, break

The key point is that MediaRecorder writes the ftyp box at the very last moment. If it is in place, then the file is complete.