[Camera] Improved resolution presets #1952

mklim · 2019-08-07T01:32:54Z

Description

This continues the work started in #1403 by @quentinleguennec.

This PR is here to address issues in the quality of video recording for the camera plugin on Android, as well as discrepancies in quality level between Android and iOS. It also allows to control the still picture quality (which was so far only maximum quality). The existing resolution presets have been updated to match between Android and iOS, and 2 new presets have been added (veryHigh and veryLow).

There are no breaking changes but the quality of the presets have been adjusted which will result in different picture/video quality on apps using this plugin.

We believe this change is necessary as, for the same resolution preset, Android video quality was very poor and the quality on iOS was to high, generating 4k files that are too heavy to upload.

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#1107
flutter/flutter#30459
flutter/flutter#29500
flutter/flutter#26959

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…xed uncaught exception.

Only works on Android since it requires automatic accepting of camera permissions to run.

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packages/camera/android/src/main/java/io/flutter/plugins/camera/Camera.java

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:15:17Z

packages/camera/android/src/main/java/io/flutter/plugins/camera/CameraUtils.java

-      }
+  static Size computeBestPreviewSize(String cameraName, ResolutionPreset preset) {
+    if (preset.ordinal() > ResolutionPreset.high.ordinal()) {
+      preset = ResolutionPreset.high;


Why do you set the preset to high here?

i think it's that high res previews negatively impact performance. The current code in master is setting previewSize to be the absolute minimum resolution that's the correct aspect ratio, and is also capped at 1080 (line 37 in the original patch).

Maybe you could improve to let the choice to the user here. My current use case need a stream at the highest resolution. And without this clamp, the function startPreviewWithImageStream works perfectly.

It would be acceptable to set the default to high or even medium. But this change actually cripples the powerful Android devices that default to 1080p video even at 60fps.

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:22:27Z

packages/camera/example/pubspec.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ dependencies:
 dev_dependencies:
  flutter_test:
    sdk: flutter
+  flutter_driver:
+    sdk: flutter
+  test: 1.6.3


Is this dependency actually used? I believe you only use flutter_test?

It was extra, removed.

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:24:52Z

packages/camera/example/test_driver/camera.dart

+  enableFlutterDriverExtension(handler: (_) => completer.future);
+
+  setUpAll(() async {
+    final Directory extDir = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();


Wouldn't it be better to use getTemporaryDirectory so that you wouldn't have to delete them all each time?

getTemporaryDirectory() still needs to be deleted by us but that does make more sense. Changed.

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:32:15Z

packages/camera/example/test_driver/camera.dart

+        final bool presetExactlySupported =
+            await testCaptureImageResolution(controller, preset.key);
+        assert(
+            !(!previousPresetExactlySupported &&


This is always true. Did you mean to use presetExactlySupported.

Whoops, yes.

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:36:43Z

packages/camera/example/test_driver/camera.dart

+        final bool presetExactlySupported =
+            await testCaptureVideoResolution(controller, preset.key);
+        assert(
+            !(!previousPresetExactlySupported &&


Same as above. Always true.

bparrishMines · 2019-08-07T22:40:27Z

packages/camera/pubspec.yaml

+    sdk: flutter
+  flutter_driver:
+    sdk: flutter
+  test: 1.6.3


nit: Is this dependency used?

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LGTM

This PR is here to address issues in the quality of video recording for the camera plugin on Android, as well as discrepancies in quality level between Android and iOS. It also allows to control the still picture quality (which was so far only maximum quality). The existing resolution presets have been updated to match between Android and iOS, and new presets have been added. There are no breaking changes but the quality of the presets have been adjusted which will result in different picture/video quality on apps using this plugin. We believe this change is necessary as, for the same resolution preset, Android video quality was very poor and the quality on iOS was too high, generating 4k files that are too heavy to upload.

quentinleguennec and others added 10 commits March 28, 2019 10:23

Added camcorderProfile to Android for better quality preset selection.

9a774a8

Improved best profile selection algorithm.

1232d22

Camera: Now resolutionPreset also influence image capture quality. Fi…

39c2d0e

…xed uncaught exception.

Use medium resolution preset for the example.

dcac87d

Fixed merge conflict with version 0.4.3+2.

018521d

Fixed formating.

945dc88

Merge branch 'master' into tengio_improved_camera_plugin

0972b28

Add integration test for size settings

5f482cc

Only works on Android since it requires automatic accepting of camera permissions to run.

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Merge branch 'master' into tengio_improved_camera_plugin

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[Camera] Improved resolution presets and matched quality between Android and iOS #1403

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bparrishMines mentioned this pull request Aug 27, 2019

Future of the Camera Plugin (Refactor/Rework) flutter/flutter#31225

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[camera] Improve CameraPreview to size itself appropriate for video and picture previews flutter/flutter#15953

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Flutter Camera plugin captures video rotated 90 degrees when in Landscape on iPhone flutter/flutter#29951

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Flutter camera plugin record quality is very poor flutter/flutter#26959

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