Rotate RAW CAMERA (because its stuck sideways when in portrait(bug)) in air for android

[Guest]

I'm using the Flex Hero Pre-release 4.5 and this is Flex Mobile application for android.

I have a situation where the raw camera is being displayed on the screen and it's being transmitted in a netstream. Apparently right now in AIR for android if you’re simply using the raw camera in portrait it doesnt actually shoot the camera in portrait...it’s 90 degrees in the wrong direction. So, here’s a code snippet where i rotated the video and it looks great on the phone. however, i need to attach the cam to a netstream and send it...but it sends sideways video, and i dont really want to adjust it on the far end. and I can’t attach a video to a netstream...Anyone have any ideas what I could do rather than just waiting for an AIR update for this?

//i know i have width and height mixed up, its because im rotating it in a second and i dont want it to be stretched
                                nearVideo = new Video(near_video.height,near_video.width);

var m:Matrix = new Matrix();
//rotate here
m.rotate(Math.PI/2); 
this.nearVideo.transform.matrix = m;
//repositioning it so it looks like its fitting in the container correctly
nearVideo.x=near_video.width;
nearVideo.y=(near_video.height-near_video.height);

if (Camera.isSupported)
{
nearCam = Camera.getCamera();
}

nearCam.setMode(near_video.height,near_video.width,10);
nearVideo.attachCamera(nearCam);
near_video.addChild(nearVideo);

//now its all great on screen...but when this comes up

sendStream.attachCamera(nearCam);

//i’m sending sideways video... 

[Guest]

Alright, well this isn't getting anywhere. I created a bug report, so if you're reading this and you're frustrated with the camera simply not working correctly in portrait please vote up the bug report and lets get the camera fixed! thanks!

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-30317

[DenisBulichenko]

Android 4.0 + AIR 3.2 still haven't this bug fixed.

[Laurence MacNeill]

I visited the link to the bug, but it says it's closed...  WRONG!!!  This issue STILL EXISTS!!   And on the iPhone, too... 

I'm running Flex 4.6 and iOS 5.1 on a 5th Generation iPod Touch and it's still there -- I get rotated video...  I've also tried it on my Droid Bionic, running Android 2.3.4 and the newest install of the AIR run-time available on the Marketplace -- same issue.

I'll try this rotation thing and see if that works...  I hope it won't screw up the QR-Codes I'm trying to read...

L.

[DanelKirch]

+1

[powerfulp_im]

The issue still persists......I am dis-appointed......Can anybody tell me how this issue will be fixed?

[DanelKirch]

Its actually not an issue but surely annoying.

The bitmap rotation is all corret, problem lies more in the device which adds rotation data into the image (look for as3 EXIF). But surely, its annoying, it would help out a lot if AIR could by default read the exif data and provide bitmapdata according to the rotation.

[powerfulp_im]

I have fixed it in my own way......Use Orientation property of VideoDisplay object. The following code done the job for me

First add this listner in creationComplete event handler of the view

this.stage.addEventListener(StageOrientationEvent.ORIENTATION_CHANGE, Stage_OrientationChange);

then

private function Stage_OrientationChange(event:StageOrientationEvent):void

{

if (this.stage.deviceOrientation == StageOrientation.ROTATED_LEFT || this.stage.deviceOrientation == StageOrientation.ROTATED_RIGHT)

                    VideoDisplay1.rotation = 0;

          else

                    VideoDisplay1.rotation = -90;

}

Just Chillllllllll.................

[DanelKirch]

awesome, did allmost the same thing, tho my app was constant on portrait.

thanks for sharing!

[phonefusionryan]

The only problem with this solution is that your only rotating the video itself, meaning that in this guys scenario its not useful because the video will not be rotated on the recieving end on that netstream.

The only solution i can think of would be to also broadcast to the recieving stream devices that the device has rotated, to allow them to also rotate their video objects.

[phonefusionryan]

I dont know I''m checking back a month later to see if this is resolved..... this bug has probably existed long before this post was even created (April 26th, 2011).... Sad adobe, very sad

[Guest]

This Issue is a known limitation for mobile devices, documented @ http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Camera.html and it is not a Runtime Issue.

A bug is already logged for the same please refer: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2881235 .

[phonefusionryan]

I understand it is a known limitation, that was not my point.

My point is that lots of people want this problem to be solved, and even according to the bug you linked:

"... we are working on this issue to improve camera future.

Thanks

Shuo

Adobe "

August 10, 2011

it would be nice to have that is all

[Reycogames]

Just FYI, its now 2015 and the problem still persists.... -__-