From 183fa14b47faa3bbcd5377ee73fcdb0bccd8db88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Dong <jdong@google.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:26:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the sluggish preview during timelapse video recording
 because software encoder is used.

bug - 3361771

Change-Id: Ic5344e9eabe7f1b82910b65b4260e4ad8dc51c32
---
 media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp b/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
index 992abd77093df..54e515a5323f8 100644
--- a/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
+++ b/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
@@ -1244,7 +1244,9 @@ status_t StagefrightRecorder::setupVideoEncoder(
     // Use software codec for time lapse
     uint32_t encoder_flags = 0;
     if (mCaptureTimeLapse) {
-        encoder_flags |= OMXCodec::kPreferSoftwareCodecs;
+        // Do not use software encoder for timelapse for now
+        // It is _very_ slow and the preview appears sluggish
+        //encoder_flags |= OMXCodec::kPreferSoftwareCodecs;
     } else if (mIsMetaDataStoredInVideoBuffers) {
         encoder_flags |= OMXCodec::kHardwareCodecsOnly;
         encoder_flags |= OMXCodec::kStoreMetaDataInVideoBuffers;