MediaRecorder.stop() stop failed: -1007

Question

I am recording video with MediaRecorder. My code works fine on 2.3.3 but fails on 4.0.3.

The issue is following: the code mediaRecorder.stop() throws the RuntimeExep

Answer 1

Solved it at last. The issue was setting the preview size before setting the actual preview for the camera. The preview size MUST be equal to the selected video size.

CamcorderProfile profile = [get required profile];

Camera.Parameters parameters = mCamera.getParameters();
parameters.setPreviewSize(profile.videoFrameWidth,profile.videoFrameHeight);
mCamera.setParameters(parameters);

mCamera.setPreviewDisplay([surface holder]);
mCamera.startPreview();

...

//configure MediaRecorder and call MediaRecorder.start()

Answer 2

Quoting the documentation of "stop" method in MediaRecorder.java in 4.0.3:

Stops recording. Call this after start(). Once recording is stopped, you will have to configure it again as if it has just been constructed. Note that a RuntimeException is intentionally thrown to the application, if no valid audio/video data has been received when stop() is called. This happens if stop() is called immediately after start(). The failure lets the application take action accordingly to clean up the output file (delete the output file, for instance), since the output file is not properly constructed when this happens.

And the fact that MediaPlayer is reporting this "media server died" is due to the same reason. Can you post the rest of your code to see if there's any misconception that may cause this issue?

Answer 3

I experienced the same issue on Samsung J4+, Android 9 Pie.

Fixed it by running mediaRecorder.start() and mediaRecorder.stop() in a Handler:

private val START = 0;
private val STOP  = 1;

inner class CameraHandler(looper: Looper?): Handler(looper) {

  override fun handleMessage(msg: Message?) {
    super.handleMessage(msg)
      try {
        when (msg?.what) {
          START -> mediaRecorder?.start()
          STOP  -> mediaRecorder?.stop()
        }
      } catch (e: Exception) {
        Log.d("debug", e.message)
      }
  }
}

declare the Handler:

private lateinit var mCameraHandler: Handler

initialize in OnCreate with a HandlerThread Looper:

val handlerThread: HandlerThread = HandlerThread("Camera Handler Thread")
handlerThread.start()
mCameraHandler = CameraHandler(handlerThread.looper)

when record or stop button is clicked call:

mCameraHandler.sendEmptyMessage(START)
mCameraHandler.sendEmptyMessage(STOP)

link to my messy code xD

Answer 4

So I found this error being reported for me on the Android emulator for API 18 (after recording was working fine on later versions).

What I found is that if I had called Camera.startPreview() before initialising and starting starting my MediaRecorder instance, I'd get the stop failed: -1007 log when calling MediaRecorder.stop, but if I called Camera.stopPreview() before initialising my MediaRecorder the video would record fine.

I hope this helps

Answer 5

I had -1007 error on some devices, mostly with android 9 and finally i solved this problem. The reason was that OMX.google.h264.encoder supports only video sizes evenly dividable by 16. I used displayMetrics.widthPixels and displayMetrics.heightPixels for video size and it is not meet requirements on all devices.

Hope this helps someone!