Video Recording example in Android

Hello friends, today i am going to post of Video recording in Android using surface view.

RecordVideoActivity.class 

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Date;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.hardware.Camera;

import android.hardware.Camera.Parameters;

import android.media.MediaRecorder;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.Environment;

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.SurfaceHolder;

import android.view.SurfaceHolder.Callback;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.SurfaceView;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class RecordVideoActivity extends Activity implements Callback

{

    @Override

    protected void onDestroy()

    {

        stopRecording();

        super.onDestroy();

    }

    private SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder;

    private SurfaceView surfaceView;

    public MediaRecorder mrec = new MediaRecorder();   

    private Camera mCamera;

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

    {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        surfaceView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.surface_camera);

        mCamera = Camera.open();

       

        surfaceHolder = surfaceView.getHolder();

        surfaceHolder.addCallback(this);

        surfaceHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);

               

    }

    @Override

    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)

    {

        menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Start");

        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

    }

    @Override

    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)

    {

        if(item.getTitle().equals("Start"))

        {

            try {

               

                startRecording();

                item.setTitle("Stop");

            } catch (Exception e) {

                String message = e.getMessage();

                Log.i(null, "Problem " + message);

                mrec.release();

            }

        }

        else if(item.getTitle().equals("Stop"))

        {

            mrec.stop();

            mrec.release();

            mrec = null;

            item.setTitle("Start");

        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

    }

    protected void startRecording() throws IOException

    {

        if(mCamera==null)

            mCamera = Camera.open();

       

         String filename;

         String path;

       

         path= Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath().toString();

        

         Date date=new Date();

         filename="/rec"+date.toString().replace(" ", "_").replace(":", "_")+".mp4";

        

         //create empty file it must use

         File file=new File(path,filename);

        

        mrec = new MediaRecorder();

        mCamera.lock();

        mCamera.unlock();

        // Please maintain sequence of following code.

        // If you change sequence it will not work.

        mrec.setCamera(mCamera);   

        mrec.setVideoSource(MediaRecorder.VideoSource.CAMERA);

        mrec.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);    

        mrec.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.MPEG_4);

        mrec.setVideoEncoder(MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder.MPEG_4_SP);

        mrec.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);

        mrec.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder.getSurface());

        mrec.setOutputFile(path+filename);

        mrec.prepare();

        mrec.start();

       

    }

    protected void stopRecording() {

        if(mrec!=null)

        {

            mrec.stop();

            mrec.release();

            mCamera.release();

            mCamera.lock();

        }

    }

    private void releaseMediaRecorder() {

        if (mrec != null) {

            mrec.reset(); // clear recorder configuration

            mrec.release(); // release the recorder object

        }

    }

    private void releaseCamera() {

        if (mCamera != null) {

            mCamera.release(); // release the camera for other applications

            mCamera = null;

        }

    }

    @Override

    public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width,int height) {     

    }

    @Override

    public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {      

        if (mCamera != null) {

            Parameters params = mCamera.getParameters();

            mCamera.setParameters(params);

            Log.i("Surface", "Created");

        }

        else {

            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Camera not available!",

                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            finish();

        }

    }

    @Override

    public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {

        mCamera.stopPreview();

        mCamera.release();      

    }

}

activity_main.xml:

<SurfaceView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:id="@+id/surface_camera"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:layout_centerInParent="true"

    android:layout_weight="1" >

</SurfaceView>

Permissions:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Download full source code from here VideoRecorderSampleCode

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Thank you :)