Allow user to configure video coding format

[flawedworld]

User should be able to choose

[MHShetty]

I have asked about it here https://groups.google.com/a/android.com/g/camerax-developers/c/dArpjDf-w8k. Will be able to work on it as soon as CameraX officially supports it.

[flawedworld]

Could also maybe extend this issue to include VP8 and VP9, whilst they are less common formats they are royalty free and open formats and I feel like CameraX could include support for those later down the line.

[MHShetty]

Hey @flawedworld,

Extremely sorry for the late reply.

I have just filed a feature request for CameraX. Hope they consider it soon!
(https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/204112201)

Thanks a lot for reporting this!

[Tachi107]

Could also maybe extend this issue to include VP8 and VP9, whilst they are less common formats they are royalty free and open formats and I feel like CameraX could include support for those later down the line.

As the successor of these formats, I believe that AV1 support should also be considered, but with lower priority as it is currently not widely supported

[Chealer]

I second this.

@flawedworld this is an issue tracker, so entries should be titled as such. In this case, I suggest:

Video codec (format) cannot be configured

[thestinger]

@Chealer We don't word feature requests that way.