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Hi Ed, Thank you so much for these suggestions. I've been reviewing them and merging them in. Hopefully it should be live. I've included a thank you note too in the article.

Hello, is there any update on this issue?

Hi,

I would really appreciate it if you could help me with that issue. We have 11 users that have had this issue so far.

Hi, qwaskhaled@, thanks for your report&info.
A quick update about this issue, we already noticed some possible reasons that could cause this issue. It seems that the device reports the capability is different from the video encoder.
It causes some specific resolution/device to fail to initialize the encoder, we already take it as priority.

qwaskhaled@, we are working on the workaround for the compatibility issue.
We probabily may need to set customized parameters for specific devices since the issue could come from different causes.
Would you be able to get a full log from the devices that had this issue?

Hi,

I don't understand what you meant by a full log. I have another report so I will share it.

Fatal Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException
Surface was requested when the Recorder had encountered error androidx.camera.video.internal.ResourceCreationException: androidx.camera.video.internal.encoder.InvalidConfigException: Encoder cannot created: null
androidx.camera.video.Recorder.onSurfaceRequested (Recorder.java:406)
androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.createPipeline (VideoCapture.java:416)
androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.resetPipeline (VideoCapture.java:482)
androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.lambda$createPipeline$0$VideoCapture (VideoCapture.java:433)
androidx.camera.video.-$$Lambda$VideoCapture$6BBmhv2eFVUcrkw2nD0ve39oNMM.onError (Unknown Source:10)
androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl.lambda$postSurfaceClosedError$13 (Camera2CameraImpl.java:1153)
androidx.camera.camera2.internal.-$$Lambda$Camera2CameraImpl$EQgjyk5vUNeY9hNKpGr93fYzUDE.run (Unknown Source:4)
android.os.Handler.handleCallback (Handler.java:873)
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:99)
android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:193)
android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:6865)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java)
com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:504)
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:858)

Hi, thanks for your reply.
We are looking for some error messages that could be shown a little bit before the crash point.
Could you provide a bugreport that is dumped right after the crash? The report should contain information to clarify the caues of this symptom.

Hi,

I don't have this issue on my of my devices. I only attached reports from the Play console for users that had it. If there is any way I can help to collect these reports then please share with me the steps so I can start.

Ah, as far as I know, the app console doesn't collect the bugreport for analysis.
We will try to get devices for testing, please feel free to report if you see any other device model get the similar symptom. Thanks!

Hi, we have it too for these devices.

Brand:INFINIX MOBILITY LIMITED
Model:SMART
Version:Android 10


Brand:TEM
Model:X40
Version:Android 9

Brand:HYUNDAI
Model:E504
Version:Android 8.1.0

I haven't heard of these brands.

Yeah, thanks for your info! That's really helpful. We will try to get more info for these devices.

Same crash on

Brand: LEAGOO
Model: t5c
Version:Android: 7.0

happening when calling cameraProvider.bindToLifecycle(this, cameraSelector, preview, VideoCapture.withOutput(recorder)). Works fine without VideoCapture.


    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Surface was requested when the Recorder had encountered error androidx.camera.video.internal.ResourceCreationException: androidx.camera.video.internal.encoder.InvalidConfigException: Encoder cannot created: null
        at androidx.camera.video.Recorder.onSurfaceRequested(Recorder.java:406)
        at androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.createPipeline(VideoCapture.java:416)
        at androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.resetPipeline(VideoCapture.java:482)
        at androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture.lambda$createPipeline$0$VideoCapture(VideoCapture.java:433)
        at androidx.camera.video.VideoCapture$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.onError(Unknown Source)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl.lambda$postSurfaceClosedError$14(Camera2CameraImpl.java:1175)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda7.run(Unknown Source)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6174)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:869)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:759)

Hi, is this issue fixed in the last beta release?

Hello. Any update?

Hi, We already phase in an improvement for the devices that report incorrect codec information. The crash will be redirected to an error signal in the later update.

That's better. Thanks

Project: platform/frameworks/support
Branch: androidx-main

commit f0da105e43d71749c70f142fb6979f710f5b74db
Author: leo huang <leohuang@google.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 03 20:50:34 2022

    Retry setting video encoder when starting video recording
   
     Recorder may fail to set video encoder in the initial state and enter an error state. One case is when the codec resource is occupied by a previous Recorder that is in a releasing state, or even occupied by another process. This change will try to reconfigure the video encoder when the recording request is made.
   
    Relnote: "Fixed a crash when the Recorder encountered an InvalidConfigException. However, this fix only prevents app from crashing, but doesn't resolve the cause of the InvalidConfigException. If the Recorder still cannot be configured, applications will receive error callback when it starts recording."
   
    Bug: 200359121
    Bug: 213617227
    Test: ./gradlew camera:camera-video:connectedAndroidTest
    Change-Id: I89c295716c6228c47f8bdadefef8336c9c058bd3

A       camera/camera-video/src/main/java/androidx/camera/video/internal/encoder/EncoderFactory.java
M       camera/camera-video/src/main/java/androidx/camera/video/VideoCapture.java
M       camera/camera-video/src/main/java/androidx/camera/video/Recorder.java
M       camera/camera-video/src/main/java/androidx/camera/video/StreamInfo.java
M       camera/camera-video/src/androidTest/java/androidx/camera/video/RecorderTest.kt

https://android-review.googlesource.com/1996232