Enabling/Disabling Video Recording

This tutorial describes how to enable/disable video recording.

Purpose

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to enable/disable video recording for a video clip.

Required Background

The Video Client Overview introduces the video client utilities.

Introduction

You can enable/disable the video separately when recording video without affecting audio recording. This means you can record an audio only clip. This functionality is provided by the CVideoRecorderUtility::SetVideoEnabledL() method.

Using Video Recording

The following tasks are covered in this tutorial:

Enable/Disable Video Recording

Basic Procedure

The high level steps to enable/disable video recording are shown here:

Create a new video recorder utility object.
Open a video clip to record.
Enable/disable video recording using the CVideoRecorderUtility::SetVideoEnabledL() method:
- To enable video recording set the aEnabled parameter to ETrue.
- To disable video recording set the aEnabled parameter to EFalse.
Call the CVideoRecorderUtility::Prepare() method.
Control recording normally.

Example

// Create new video recorder utility object (iVideoRecorder) +// Open the video clip + +iVideoRecorder->SetVideoEnabledL(EFalse); +// disable video recording + +// Video recording has now been disabled. Recording is audio only. +// Call Prepare() and then Record() to record normally