tapping 'front camera button' while recording a video freezes the camera

Bug #1358302 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
camera-app
Fix Released
Critical
Florian Boucault
camera-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

mako #197

Test Case:
1. Launch camera-app and switch to video mode
2. Start recording a video
3. Tap the 'Front camera' icon

Actual result
The display freezes but it is still responding to input events and recording continues.

Related branches

Revision history for this message
Jim Hodapp (jhodapp) wrote :

camera-app needs to first call stop recording before switching to the front camera.

Changed in camera-app:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Florian Boucault (fboucault)
importance: Undecided → Critical
Revision history for this message
Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn) wrote :

I think it's also acceptable to disable the switching button (for front / back camera switch).

summary: - tapping front camera while recording a video freezes the camera
+ tapping 'front camera button' while recording a video freezes the camera
Changed in camera-app:
milestone: none → rtm-freeze
tags: added: rtm14
Changed in camera-app:
milestone: rtm-freeze → none
Bill Filler (bfiller)
tags: added: touch-2014-09-11
Changed in camera-app:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package camera-app - 3.0.0+14.10.20140903-0ubuntu1

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camera-app (3.0.0+14.10.20140903-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Add :any to python dependency and install the camera app module in
    app-private libdir.

  [ Ugo Riboni ]
  * Add translations inside the .desktop file (LP: #1318008)

  [ Florian Boucault ]
  * Disable mode switching while recording videos.
  * Disable camera switching while recording videos. (LP: #1358302)
  * Photo roll: more fine grained media folder monitoring as to properly
    forward deletions to the view. Workarounded a couple of Qt bugs
    related to snapMode SnapOneItem. (LP: #1355407)
  * Do not allow switching to the camera roll while recording a video.
  * Rename application from 'camera' to 'com.ubuntu.camera' to make
    state saving work again. Seamlessly transition ~/Pictures/camera and
    ~/Videos/camera to new locations. (LP: #1363112)
  * Remove the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain from the .desktop file, which
    causes the click scope not to load the inline translations. (LP:
    #1325626)
  * Align snapshot with viewfinder as to assure visual continuity in the
    transition from one to the other. (LP: #1362822)
  * Added cancel button in content export mode. (LP: #1362823)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:52:44 +0000

Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in camera-app:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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