CameraRecorder without audio

YenZi

Hi,

in my app running on embedded target (iMX6) I need to record videos. I am trying to use the QML CameraRecorder (using the videoRecorder property of Camera). The problem I am facing is, that the camera output is slowed down extremely as soon as I enable the videoRecorder. On the console I can see the error CameraBin warning: "Can't record audio fast enough" (which is comming from gstreamer. As I don't need any audio recorded in the video at all, I am looking for a way to set things up so that I can record only the video without any audio. I have searched for a solution for 2 days now and I couldn't find any answer. So maybe someone here on the forum can help out.

Thx, YenZi

YenZi

So, I just found out that this gstreamer pipeline on the commandline works just fine and records the camera capture to a file :

gst-launch-1.0 -e imxv4l2videosrc ! imxvpuenc_h264 bitrate=4096 ! h264parse ! mp4mux ! filesink location=video.mp4

Now the question would be, how I can control these gstreamer pipeline params just by using the QML Camera component ?

GrecKo

Have you tried setting the muted property of your CameraRecorder to true ?

Cleiton Bueno

@GrecKo it's right, see.

QMediaRecord
Camera Recorder QML

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YenZi

Hi @GrecKo ,

yes, I've set muted: true. Makes no difference.

YenZi

Hi @Cleiton-Bueno,

even if I set muted: true the gstreamer pipeline still seems to have audio encoding included. The biggest problem is, that I don't have control over the gstreamer pipeline working as the backend for QtMultimedia elements.

Cleiton Bueno

@YenZi An alternative so you do not have to change QtMultimedia source-code, create patches and everything else is to block the kernel module regarding the mic part of the webcam, for example:

Listing the drivers/modules for the audio interfaces:

$ cat /proc/asound/modules
  0 snd_hda_intel

Then add in the blacklist this module, be careful that more than one can identify the WebCamera/Camera:

# echo "blacklist snd_hda_intel" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

So the module will not load and the capture will not work.

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YenZi

@Cleiton-Bueno thanks for your suggestion. I have disabled audio in my kernel completely now. Now I get the message CameraBin warning: "Could not open audio device for recording." which shows, that I really removed audio support.
Unfortunately, this still doesn't solve my basic issue, which is a extremely sluggish video output when the videoRecorder property is enabled in the Camera. That means, the audio encoding was not causing this problem at all.

Thx, Jens