Android camera native access : startPreview() vs startRecording()

Question

Trying to get camera working from native code in Android ICS: most manuals refer to startPreview() method . But browsing AOSP code I\'ve found also \'st

Answer 1

dataCallbackTimestamp(nsecs_t timestamp, int32_t msgType, const sp& data) 

when

msgType==CAMERA_MSG_VIDEO_FRAME

gives data in internal form. It is not guaranteed pure yuv frame data. For example data.get()->size() can be bigger than yuv frame size or can be some 20-bytes-sized data structure for real(?) frame buffer keeping somewhere in camera buffers list.

So, this topic is not complete yet. :)