Not able to use H264 (video/avc) Encoder on Intel x86 device, Android 4.2.2

Question

I intend to encode raw YUV Data to H264 data for which I'm using Android's MediaCodec interface. Below is the snippet I have in place for the same:

MediaCodec mEncoder = MediaCodec.createEncoderByType("video/avc");

MediaFormat mVideoFormat = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat("video/avc", 640 , 480);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_COLOR_FORMAT, CodecCapabilities.COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_BIT_RATE, 64000);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, 24);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_I_FRAME_INTERVAL, 5);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_AAC_PROFILE, MediaCodecInfo.CodecProfileLevel.AVCProfileBaseline);

mEncoder.configure(mVideoFormat, null, null, MediaCodec.CONFIGURE_FLAG_ENCODE);
mEncoder.start();
ByteBuffer[] mInputVideoBuffers = mEncoder.getInputBuffers();
ByteBuffer[] mOutputVideoBuffers = mEncoder.getOutputBuffers();

Although it works well on ARM devices, it fails on Intel x86 device I have (Samsung Tab 3) with below message:

E/ACodec(21756): [OMX.Intel.VideoEncoder.AVC] ERROR(0x80001001)

E/MediaCodec(21756): Codec reported an error. (omx error 0x80001001, internalError -2147483648)

Any help on this would be useful.

Answer 1

Found the fix for the issue. I did not release the Codec before creating another one. Multiple instances of Encoder is not permissible on Samsung Tab 3 running on Intel x86 device. This behaviour is pretty inconsistent across android devices; taking into account other devices on which I've had tested my code.

Answer 2

The code shown won't work on some ARM devices. COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar isn't supported everywhere.

You need to detect the set of available color formats at runtime. See the isRecognizedFormat() method in EncodeDecodeTest. To pass CTS, the device must allow one of those formats. There's five listed, but really there's only two (planar and semi-planar), and they're not radically different.

Answer 3

For Intel Devices Encoder.getOutput is Crashing , Created a media format and directly supplied to the encoder

MediaFormat mVideoFormat = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat("video/avc", 640 , 480);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_COLOR_FORMAT, MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities.COLOR_FormatSurface);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_BIT_RATE, 64000);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, 24);
mVideoFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_I_FRAME_INTERVAL, 5);

mTrackIndex = mMuxer.addTrack(mVideoFormat );