Why isn't there any video recorder app?

There is a plethora of VOICE recording apps, but NO whatsoever VIDEO-recording ones. Fortunately/ unfortunately, the only choice for the moment is 'jailbreaking' and installation of 'third-party' video-recording software.
On the other hand, while jailbreaking enables a whole new sweetness to your iPhone, it also compromises in many cases the stability of your beloved device...

The choice is yours - Handle your iPhone with care!

 

Apple has not provided a way for developers to utilise the camera except in a very specific way. Developers have to work within Apple's 'allowed' frameworks and api's etc.

This is why we have no apps which can control the screen brightness, add flash to safari, add up coming calendar events to the lock screen, etc. This is why Tap Tap can't use music from the iPod. This is why Apps can't run in the background.

Apple isn't really being mean, they're doing it for a reason, to keep the phone as stable/secure/long battery life as possible.

They will eventually open more things up, such as camera access, I would imagine.

Currently, iPhone apps are 'sandboxed' this means each one exists in it's own little box and can't talk to the outside world for the most part. This is why each app that has WiFi sharing does it in it's own way, why many apps sync to the developers server instead. But it does mean that the chances of a malicious app are extremely slim.

Jailbreaking your phone makes the OS parts write able to anything, and allows devs to make safari add ons (save files for example) but it's quite a tricky thing to do and really not worth it except for the hardcore geeks.

I've done it, played with Cycorder (vid camera app) and other things, and to be honest what is in the App Store is the best stuff, for the most part. A lot of jailbroken apps decide they want to stay open in the background and make the phone really slugish, far more crash happy, and these apps are now largely full of adverts of the devs are asking for payments via paypal to unlock things; in other words they're getting jealous of the money perceived to being made in the AppStore.

Ahh crap, i've just skewed off on a tangent, sorry...



Don't bother jailbreaking your phone. Really, really not worth the hassle.

 

That was a helpful read.
Thank You.
I wanted to JB my iphone before for mms/video recording capabilities.
But never pulled the trigger.

 

What risk? You click a single button and it's done. You don't even lose any of your apps or settings.

As for video, once you jailbreak download Qik or Flixwagon for live streaming video.

 

I JB a 1st gen touch the other day and it was pretty painless. it seems to be working great so far. Still don't know about doing my (1st gen)iphone though.
can anybody else comment on system stability after jailbreaking?

 

I seriously hate on everyone on this damn forum thinks jailbreaking is the hardest thing to do and can seriously mess up your iDevice.....when in reality, it is the simplest procedure, a five year old could do it. You click on a couple buttons, hold a couple buttons on your iDevice, and it does the rest. Also, with the newest 2.2 update, nothing slows the iPhone down at all, I have yet to experience a "crash" of any kind at all. Don't download Kate or Installer, and you should be fine, and it's all user discretion as to what you download anyway. Jailbreak, you won't regret it.

 

yea it's pretty simple, but phones are a necessity so some people are more cautious about tinkering with them. especially if it's their only phone like me.
that's why I'm testing the waters with a touch at the moment.

thank you for your input though.

 

I had tried Jailbreaking in the pre-firmware 2.0 days before the App Store was available.
It really helped to open the horizons on what the iPhone's potential could be. The basic usage of the phone was good but the experimental apps from JB'ing and the Installer.app were great. However, since they were experimental the apps were very buggy and crashed alot. It was really frustrating. It did get slightly better over time, but just before 2.0 was released, we started getting some really good apps turning commercial requesting "donations" that was mandatory to release more features. "Kate" which was a very good data management app that placed info on the locked screen wallpaper, and Labyrinth spring to mind.
At that point, I realised that if the good apps were going to be commercial, then they might as well go official on the App Store. For sure, there are some apps and developers who absolutely refuse to be reined in by Apple's restrictions, but I would prefer that they play fair and try to follow guidelines in order to preserve as much stability as possible. It has been alot better, although I would refrain from saying its perfect.
I do miss the nicer apps from Jailbreaking, such as the video recorder Cycorder, but the actual number of must-haves from doing that is not as much as before, since the App Store. I do believe that official developers are more responsive due to receiving actual payments and praise/feedback, and are thus more willing to do better for the customers than those developing for JB'd iPhones only. Of course, this is a blanket generalisation with exceptions, but I do believe in the App Store over JB.

 

that would be awsome if apple would alow that -.-

 

if you goto Qik.com you can record video and it streams live to the website and saves it in real time

 

All of the vid recording I've seen from the iPhone are very poor quality. Distorted images and poor framerate. Doesn't seem very useful to me. Your mileage may vary.

(my 1st post here)

 

there are at least 4 apps that record video for iphone. jb ur phone if you want this functionality as it will NOT appear in appstore anytime soon.

~15fps, better quality than most comparable phones, etc. the streaming function of some of the apps works pretty decent on 3g.

I had these loaded up but removed them because I'm not a lifecaster douchebag and have no need to stream vid really

*edit*

apple won't allow this because they plan on offering this functionality in the distant future. that's the plan., trickle out additional functionality with new device and os releases over the next few years to maximize profit. they patented intelliscreen layout, but you won't see that until 2009 Q4 I'm sure. apple is a bitch what can i say. why do you think Woz wants nothing to do with this and is all for jailbreaking.

 

Yes, it's not a great camera, but it does get the job done. It seems comparable to other phone videos that I have seen, but I bet an Apple solution could do it better... Until then, Cycorder will do. BTW, it seems a steady hand is more important than a still subject.

 

Anyone here who says jailbreaking is hard needs to try it before they start their bitching. It's so easy a caveman could do it.