This simple code:
Camera.Parameters params = currentCamera.getParameters();
params.setPreviewFpsRange( 10000, 15000 );
currentCamera.setParameters( params );
does not work on my Nexus 4 (or my Motorola Atrix), despite the allowed values being between in the allowed range of 5000 to 120000.
When I try to use any min or max values different than 5000 and 120000, respectively, I get:
setPreviewFpsRange(const android::QCameraParameters&): error: FPS range
value not supported
which is silly. Also, I tried this code on my older Motorola Atrix (which shows a valid fps range to be between 10000 and 30000) and it also doesn't work. Anything that can be done?
From my searching on the topic I have found that a) there is very little material on the topic anywhere, and b) it may be the case that this functionality is simply unsupported by some platforms. It's a bit strange that Google's current flagship phone, the Nexus 4, doesn't support it, though...
Ahah! So as part of my search for answers I checked the operation of my Nexus 10 with my app. It turns out that the values that the getSupportedFpsRange function returns are ranges representing exact duples that may be input into setPreviewFpsRange and any other duples are unsupported (as far as I can tell, anyway.)
I discovered this because the Nexus 10 returns multiple duples from getSupportedFpsRange. I've duplicated the three devices' getSupportedFpsRange return values here.
LG Nexus 4:
preview-fps-range-values=(5000,120000);
Motorola Atrix:
preview-fps-range-values=(10000,30000);
Samsung Nexus 10:
preview-fps-range-values=(15000,15000),(24000,24000),(25000,25000),(15000,30000),(30000,30000);
We cannot do
params.setPreviewFpsRange( 29000, 29000 );
to force the preview to be at 29fps unless the device already specifically supports that duple.
Of course, the original reason I was investigating this functionality was in the hopes of replicating the Nexus 4's silky smooth camera preview in my own app. This would seem to prove conclusively that, on the Nexus 4 at least, setPreviewFpsRange won't help with that.
Time to continue searching. (: