Custom Video Capture
With images and audio there are multiple ways to do capture. Video capture is no exception; we don't have quite as many options as we do with audio, but we do have the ability to create a custom video capture example using the MediaRecorder class.
In many ways, building a custom video capture application is a lot like building a custom camera application combined with a custom audio recording application. We have to create a SurfaceView for the camera to draw preview or viewfinder images on, just like we did with our custom camera examples from Chapter 2, and we'll use a MediaRecorder for the actual recording, like we did in Chapter 7 for audio capture.
MediaRecorder for Video
To use the MediaRecorder for video capture, we ...
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