Android mediarecorder stop failed

Question

I\'ve faced a very strange behavior: sometimes my mediarecorder crashes with an error \"Stop failed\" and sometimes it works fine. Is there my fault or it is a bug of the sy

Answer 1

You may catch a RuntimeException at the MediaRecorder.stop() method.

Example:

MediaRecorder mRecorder = new MediaRecorder();
File mFile = new File("The output file's absolutePath");

... //config the mRecorder
mRecorder.setOutputFile(mFile.getAbsolutePath());

... //prepare() ...
mRecorder.start();

try {
    mRecorder.stop();
} catch(RuntimeException e) {
    mFile.delete();  //you must delete the outputfile when the recorder stop failed.
} finally {
    mRecorder.release();
    mRecorder = null;
}