Camera Video Recording

[VladislavAntonyuk]

Description of Change

Linked Issues

• Fixes [Proposal] Camera Video Recording #2706

PR Checklist

• Has a linked Issue, and the Issue has been approved(bug) or Championed (feature/proposal)
• Has tests (if omitted, state reason in description)
• Has samples (if omitted, state reason in description)
• Rebased on top of main at time of PR
• Changes adhere to coding standard
• Documentation created or updated: Camera Video Recording MicrosoftDocs/CommunityToolkit#583

Additional information

https://vladislavantonyuk.github.io/articles/Turn-any-phone-into-an-IP-Camera-in-30-Minutes-using-.NET-MAUI/

[pictos]

@VladislavAntonyuk I believe you're using the old Camera2 APi, you should use the CameraX API instead, it will be simpler and it's newer

here for reference https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camerax/video-capture

[VladislavAntonyuk]

@VladislavAntonyuk I believe you're using the old Camera2 APi, you should use the CameraX API instead, it will be simpler and it's newer

here for reference https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camerax/video-capture

I see we reference a NuGet for camera 2, that is why I used this implementation. According to Google camera 2 is not obsolete, but allows you to have a full control of the camera. CameraX just a convenient way to work with camera api. I will update to CameraX.

[VladislavAntonyuk]

Hey @TheCodeTraveler, thank you for the code review. Why did you change StartVideoRecording method to return the stream?
The idea is to pass any stream and record directly to the stream (see Windows implementation). Also we cannot return stream from the StartVideoRecording and we can create fill the stream at the end of the video recording (android).

[TheCodeTraveler]

Thanks Vlad!!

I updated ICameraView to include the following API:

Task StartVideoRecording(CancellationToken token = default);

This provides an easy path for developers who do not need to provide us a custom Stream.

The developer will then retrieve their video recording Stream from StopVideoRecording:

Stream videoRecordingStream = await StopVideoRecording(CancellationToken.None);