j2me and video recording

From:
"cloud139" <kloud139@tiscali.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
28 Nov 2006 02:17:10 -0800
Message-ID:
<1164709030.601062.262350@l39g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
Ciao folks,
does RecordControl is a good solution to record a live video?
I explain the question: can RecordControl record a live video from
camera?

I post some code:
public void recordVideo()
       {
           try
           {
               //Create a Player that captures live audio.
               //Player p = Manager.createPlayer("capture://audio");
               //p.realize();
               // Get the RecordControl, set the record stream,
               // start the Player and record for 5 seconds.
               rc = (RecordControl)player.getControl("RecordControl");
               output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
               rc.setRecordStream(output);
               rc.startRecord();
               //player.start();
               Thread.currentThread().sleep(5000);
               //rc.commit();
               //player.close();
           }
           //catch (IOException ioe) {}
           //catch (MediaException me) {}
           catch (Exception ie) { }
       }

       public void stopRecord()
       {
           try
           {
               System.out.println("BUFFER OUTPUT:" + output.size());
               rc.commit();
               rc.stopRecord();
           }
           catch (Exception e){}
       }
   }

I found this code on many forums and it doesn't work over every
configuration I tryied (SUN wireless toolkit and some mobile phones
including Nokia 6680 and SonyEricsson K700i).
By specifing: <rc=(RecordControl)player.getControl("RecordControl"); >
this returns null even if the device supports video recording (checking
<supports.video.capture>)....

thank you all

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