Fix the camera format used by the camera example

The camera example was simply trying to get the format with
the highest possible resolution. But that often lead to formats
with a very low frame rate being chosen. Change the algorithm
to find the highest resolution format with at least 30FPS.

Fixes: QTBUG-97817
Change-Id: I5e043188a4ed3d4acd72190b96fba4095a3f9aa2
Reviewed-by: André de la Rocha <andre.rocha@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit c76508f8a2d121a428d90648b4c894c845c3f010)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/examples/multimediawidgets/camera/camera.cpp b/examples/multimediawidgets/camera/camera.cpp
index e87ef47f1..e71e209f3 100644
--- a/examples/multimediawidgets/camera/camera.cpp
+++ b/examples/multimediawidgets/camera/camera.cpp
@@ -133,22 +133,22 @@ void Camera::setCamera(const QCameraDevice &cameraDevice)
     updateCaptureMode();
 
     if (m_camera->cameraFormat().isNull()) {
-        // Setting default settings.
-        // The biggest resolution and the max framerate
         auto formats = cameraDevice.videoFormats();
         if (!formats.isEmpty()) {
-            auto defaultFormat = formats.first();
-
-            for (const auto &format : formats) {
-
-                bool isFormatBigger = format.resolution().width() > defaultFormat.resolution().width()
-                        && format.resolution().height() > defaultFormat.resolution().height();
-
-                defaultFormat = isFormatBigger ? format : defaultFormat;
+            // Choose a decent camera format: Maximum resolution at at least 30 FPS
+            // we use 29 FPS to compare against as some cameras report 29.97 FPS...
+            QCameraFormat bestFormat;
+            for (const auto &fmt : formats) {
+                if (bestFormat.maxFrameRate() < 29 && fmt.maxFrameRate() > bestFormat.maxFrameRate())
+                    bestFormat = fmt;
+                else if (bestFormat.maxFrameRate() == fmt.maxFrameRate() &&
+                         bestFormat.resolution().width()*bestFormat.resolution().height() <
+                             fmt.resolution().width()*fmt.resolution().height())
+                    bestFormat = fmt;
             }
 
-            m_camera->setCameraFormat(defaultFormat);
-            m_mediaRecorder->setVideoFrameRate(defaultFormat.maxFrameRate());
+            m_camera->setCameraFormat(bestFormat);
+            m_mediaRecorder->setVideoFrameRate(bestFormat.maxFrameRate());
         }
     }