commit 69113e8ccc30fbdb8733ca2070bd3491b21e656d
author Marco Nelissen <marcone@google.com> Wed Dec 10 11:05:32 2014 -0800
committer Marco Nelissen <marcone@google.com> Wed Dec 10 11:05:32 2014 -0800
tree badaf6dd1aaaed21ad560e36a76354646b447ca4
parent f888020c6e2735624f2b2a30e72aca24e17b8b4d

Truncate file before recording into it.

Recording into an existing file of non-zero length could leave old
data in the file after the recording ends. Best case that wastes
space, worst case it results in a file that's considered corrupt
on playback.

Change-Id: I2c77a107603b2b36790958360ff0856c2b28d677

media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp

diff --git a/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp b/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
index cadd691..de25291 100644
--- a/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
+++ b/media/libmediaplayerservice/StagefrightRecorder.cpp
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@
         return -EBADF;
     }
 
+    // start with a clean, empty file
+    ftruncate(fd, 0);
+
     if (mOutputFd >= 0) {
         ::close(mOutputFd);
     }