Hi,
First of all, a BIG thank you for the video capture in today’s daily build. Would it be possible to add a paramter to specify a max #seconds to capture?
This would be handy to get more control over the size of the captured video, e.g. when making videos that will be uploaded. Again, many thanks and keep up the good work!
–Maarten
Maarten,
We’ve added the ability to set the preferred quality and length/duration of the recorded video as of daily build #1247.
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/library/media/captureVideo.html
One word of warning. Not all camera apps on Android respect these settings and will still allow the end-user to record the video past the length you set. There is no work-around for this, because we of course have no control over what the 3rd party camera app does (note that there is no such thing as a default camera app on Android). So, to help counter this issue, the “completion” event that you’ll receive when the capture is done will now provide the resulting “duration” and “fileSize” of the recorded video. This will at least allow you to check if the resulting video is too long and tell the end-user to record a shorter video.
Maarten,
We’ve added the ability to set the preferred quality and length/duration of the recorded video as of daily build #1247.
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/library/media/captureVideo.html
One word of warning. Not all camera apps on Android respect these settings and will still allow the end-user to record the video past the length you set. There is no work-around for this, because we of course have no control over what the 3rd party camera app does (note that there is no such thing as a default camera app on Android). So, to help counter this issue, the “completion” event that you’ll receive when the capture is done will now provide the resulting “duration” and “fileSize” of the recorded video. This will at least allow you to check if the resulting video is too long and tell the end-user to record a shorter video.