CvVideoCamera Start / Stop Recording but not video display

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So from the sounds of it you need to initialize a new session to start recording ?

You create your recording object wherever you want, and you add only the image you want. You can close it when you want and open another one after... Just keep in mind scope if you are coding in C/C++, that's what I want to say when I write ``before'' in my answer.

I probably should have been more clear that I am doing this for IOS and using cap_ios

so the initialization code looks like this.

self.videoCamera = [[CvVideoCamera alloc] initWithParentView:imageView];
self.videoCamera.defaultAVCaptureDevicePosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionBack;
self.videoCamera.defaultAVCaptureSessionPreset = AVCaptureSessionPresetMedium;
self.videoCamera.defaultAVCaptureVideoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeRight;
self.videoCamera.defaultFPS = 30;
self.videoCamera.recordVideo = YES;
self.videoCamera.delegate = self;

then I call [self.videoCamera start]; what I like to do is toggle recording on and off while the feed continues to play on screen. However recordVideo is only evaluated when start is called.

I'd like to be able to set recordVideo with true or false and have it actually do something after the start call.