I’m learning about recording videos and such with react-native and expo and I’ve come across a frustrating problem when playing back the videos. I can record the videos just fine, front facing and back facing, but then when I go to play them back, the front facing camera video has a fairly loud “clicking” noise in it.
Some notes:
- I am testing on an iOS device, I have not tried Android
- I am importing from expo-camera and expo-av
- Clicking seems to happen only on front facing recordings
- This is a brand new expo/rn project
- I have been able to reproduce it with different snacks that I will post below.
Here’s a link to a video (in a tweet) of it happening - https://twitter.com/kevinguebert/status/1141126958530486277
If you turn up your volume you can hear it right at the 0-1 second mark.
After searching through issues on github, I found this snack created that also has video recording and playback in it. I was able to reproduce the clicking here by switching the camera between front/back inside components/Record.js - https://snack.expo.io/@nandorojo/video-recording-expo-camera
I have also tried turning off any touch/haptic feedback clicks on my iPhone wondering if that caused the problem but it did not have an impact on the playback. Lastly, I also looked through previous posts and github issues as well and haven’t seen anything related as of yet.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!