Video freezes on camera switch with AVFoundation

Question

I made an app with a feature to capture and save video. I have used AVFoundation for that and Apple\'s AVCam has been my guide.

I hope I can make it clear:
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Answer 1

Try this—it worked like a champ for me:

BOOL isUsingFrontFacingCamera;

- (BOOL) swapCameras
{
    if ([self cameraCount] > 1) {
        AVCaptureDevicePosition desiredPosition;
        if (isUsingFrontFacingCamera) {
            desiredPosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionBack;
        } else {
            desiredPosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionFront;
        }

        for (AVCaptureDevice *d in [AVCaptureDevice devicesWithMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo]) {
            if ([d position] == desiredPosition) {
                [[self session] beginConfiguration];
                AVCaptureDeviceInput *input = [AVCaptureDeviceInput deviceInputWithDevice:d error:nil];
                for (AVCaptureInput *oldInput in [[self session] inputs]) {
                    [[self session] removeInput:oldInput];
                }
                [[self session] addInput:input];
                [[self session] commitConfiguration];
                break;
            }
        }
        isUsingFrontFacingCamera = !isUsingFrontFacingCamera;
        return YES;
    }
    return NO;
}

You should be able to drop this code in to replace the original swapCameras in VideoRecorderCaptureManager.m

Origin: Apple's SquareCam sample code.