Capturing Video

Purpose

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to capture video using the Ecam API.

Required Background

For background information, see the Onboard Camera Overview.

Introduction

The video capture control allows the client to start, pause, resume and stop video capture.

Using Video Capture

• Create a class pointer using the CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::NewL() factory method.

• Use CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::PrepareVideoCapture() to initialize the settings for video capture.

• Start video capture using CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::StartVideoCaptureL().

• Use CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::PauseVideoCapture() call to pause the video capture.

• Use CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::ResumeVideoCaptureL() to resume the video capture.

• Use CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::StopVideoCapture() to stop video capture.

• Release the resource that was allocated during PrepareVideoCapture() using the CCamera::CCameraVideoCaptureControl::ReleaseVideoResource() method.