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What are the limitations of accessing /dev/video0 on an android device? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Conceptually I can understand that Termux cant take a photo or video from a camera device because it doesnt have access to the camera drivers that Android has....

...except that the Termux API does allow you to take a photo. So why is video off limits?

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[–] 0xd34d 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably because it still uses the android camera API to do so rather than directly access /dev/video0.

https://github.com/termux/termux-api/blob/master/app%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Fcom%2Ftermux%2Fapi%2Fapis%2FCameraPhotoAPI.java

I'm sure it is possible to add a video capture to the API 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I mean it's not like they're calling native Android functions there (in proceedWithOpenCamera), it looks like the CameraDevice object might offer a lot more capture modes that just aren't being tapped into. Is it just a programming issue, or does Android only offer Photo contexts but not Video ones, or...?