[Android] WebCamTexture.requestedFPS not working

hi i created WebCamTexture with 10 fps but it still unity is processing camera every update frame, why is that?

Code (CSharp):

1. w1 = new WebCamTexture(_cameraTargetWidth, _cameraTargetHeight, 10);
2. w1.requestedFPS = 10;              
3. rimg.texture = w1;
4. w1.Play();

 

My humble take on this is that this is how generally Unity handles camera on mobile devices as it also happens on iPhone the same way. When the hardware gets very low exposure times (e.g. daylight where there is plenty of photons available), the camera pictures are ready from sensor in fraction of time what it takes in roomlight overwheling the system and you see rapid succession of Webcam.Update. Further making the WebCamTexture.requestedFPS problem very dramatic in terms of performance inconsistency.

That is what you see in the middle, Webcam.Update is returning every frame when camera is pointed into daylight scenery. Everything looks OK when you see those subsequent frames coming in at left and right side of profiler, very consistently every few game updates. But once the underlying hardware can push out frames at super fast speeds it totally overwhelms the Unity running on Android in this case.

I really hope Unity would take a look into the camera system. This kind of inconsistency is not really helping

 

WebCamTexture is simply not usable in anything but little development prototypes. Check out NatCam instead.