Question

I have an error in:

public class VisualizerCapture extends Activity implements Visualizer.OnDataCaptureListener {
private Visualizer mVisualizer = new Visualizer(0); // error is here!!!

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setupVisualizer();
}

This is the thrown error:

  java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{bla bla}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot initialize Visualizer engine, error: -4

My manifest:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS"/>    
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>         

Setup method:

private void setupVisualizer() {
    Visualizer.setEnabled(false);
    Visualizer.setCaptureSize(1);      //test
    Visualizer.setDataCaptureListener(this,250,false,true);
    //Visualizer.setScalingMode(visualizer.SCALING_MODE_AS_PLAYED);
    Visualizer.setEnabled(true);
            Log.v("ABS","setupVisualizer" + Visualizer.getEnabled());    //log

}

Why I got this error? Seems like I have sated all permissions?

Be patient please, I am newbie in development. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

After reading the documentation:

public Visualizer (int audioSession)

Added in API level 9
Class constructor.

Parameters
audioSession    system wide unique audio session identifier. If audioSession is not 0, the visualizer will be attached to the MediaPlayer or AudioTrack in the same audio session. Otherwise, the Visualizer will apply to the output mix.

Are you sure you want 0 ?

Update

Looking further into the error:

public static final int ERROR_BAD_VALUE

Added in API level 9
Operation failed due to bad parameter value.

Constant Value: -4 (0xfffffffc)

That is the error your’re getting, it is likely you have something bad in the configuration of the Visualizer, double check the content in your setupVisualizer method.