capture function problem

[fberna]

Hi guys, I am using the capture function in order to create directly a .mkv file from Unity. From the code below a get only a frame into the file. It looks like am continuously overwriting the file. Have some of you any suggestions?

Thx FB

private async Task KinectLoop()
    { 
    while (true)
        {
            using (K4AdotNet.Sensor.Capture capture = await Task.Run(() => kinect.GetCapture()).ConfigureAwait(true))
                {
                     using (var recorder = new Recorder(dstFilePath + "00.mkv", kinect, configuration))
                     {
                        if (capture != null)
                        {
                                recorder.WriteHeader();
                                recorder.WriteCapture(capture);
                       }
                    }
                }
        }
    }

[baSSiLL]

It looks like am continuously overwriting the file. Yes, that's exactly what's happening. Move createing/disposing of recorder and recorder.WriteHeader call out of the loop.

using (var recorder = new Recorder(dstFilePath + "00.mkv", kinect, configuration))
{
recorder.WriteHeader();
while (true)
{
// get capture
recorder.WriteCapture(capture);
}
}

[fberna]

Move createing/disposing of recorder and recorder.WriteHeader call out of the loop.

I tried but like that Unity crashes every time. It is probably due to RAM overload.

[baSSiLL]

You should dispose Capture objects when finished working with them. In this case, right after calling WriteCapture.

[fberna]

You should dispose Capture objects when finished working with them. In this case, right after calling WriteCapture.

In this way, I will have my file in the right format but with zero frames in it.

using (K4AdotNet.Sensor.Capture capture = await Task.Run(() => kinect.GetCapture()).ConfigureAwait(true)
           {
                using (var recorder = new Recorder(dstFilePath + "00.mkv", kinect, configuration))
                {
                    recorder.WriteHeader();
                    while (true)
                    {
                          recorder.WriteCapture(capture);
                          capture.Dispose();
                     }
                }
            }

[baSSiLL]

Apparently you should be getting Capture inside the loop before writing it to recorder.

[fberna]

It works! Thank you