Camera2Video glitching and green flickering in recorded video in Galaxy S6

[buntupana]

In Samsung Galaxy S6 the video result has a green flickering and glitching effect. I think it's probably related somehow with SurfaceView, I've tried and old implementation using TextureView and it does not have this issue.

[buntupana]

@owahltinez any idea why this is happening?

[HasimD]

Yes. I am experiencing this problem too.

[buntupana]

@HasimD the only solution I found is change my implementation to use TextureView instead SurfaceView...just if it's useful for you. It's a bit of shame that Google doesn't provide a good examples and don't even attend the tickets created

[HasimD]

I agree with you, i'm very surprised. The offical sample doesn't seem like professional. Also if I click to the capture button, the app crashes. I need to press it for a while. They said it is not an error and they will change it. Weird.

[nedols]

I agree with you, i'm very surprised. The offical sample doesn't seem like professional. Also if I click to the capture button, the app crashes. I need to press it for a while. They said it is not an error and they will change it. Weird.

Looking at the code this is the correct behaviour.
To start recording you need to tap&hold the capture button. When you release the capture button the application stop to recording video.

[amazingvoice]

I'm experiencing the same problem on my Galaxy s7 and Pixel 3. This is the only offical video recording demo using Camera2, which is embarrassing...

[amazingvoice]

@buntupana I just happened to find that an animation causes the white flash. Search for the variable animationTask in CameraFragment.kt. Comment that out will solve the problem.

[buntupana]

@amazingvoice I'm not complaining about the white flickering, it's the green flickering and the glitching when the video is recorded what this ticket is about