Is the Iphone 3G Camera capable of Video recording and playback

[milani]

No, most video cameras use hardware to capture video and compress it and save the video files. The software controls the hardware.

Cycorder, iPhone Video Recorder, Qik, and Ustream literally just take screenshots of the screen as fast as they can. Like holding the home button and pressing the sleep/wake button over and over, then compiling them into a video.

It's completely different.

The method by which the video is captured is irrelevant. All video works under the premise that frames are captured and replayed. The end result is much the same, although obviously the jailbreak method can't reach 30fps, or so I would think.

 

[The General]

The method by which the video is captured is irrelevant. All video works under the premise that frames are captured and replayed. The end result is much the same, although obviously the jailbreak method can't reach 30fps, or so I would think.

When hardware does the encoding, it is faster and more efficient than when software does the encoding. Specialized hardware encoders use less power and operate faster than when such instructions are presented to the CPU.

The method by which Cycorder et al capture video is limited to the resolution of the display on the device. It is a backwards, limiting, inefficient way to capture video and what it produces is poor quality, low FPS video.

It's a shoddy hack at best.

If Apple chooses not to give iPhone 3G and EDGE uses video recording, I completely understand.

 

[aok1975]

When hardware does the encoding, it is faster and more efficient than when software does the encoding. Specialized hardware encoders use less power and operate faster than when such instructions are presented to the CPU.

The method by which Cycorder et al capture video is limited to the resolution of the display on the device. It is a backwards, limiting, inefficient way to capture video and what it produces is poor quality, low FPS video.

It's a shoddy hack at best.

If Apple chooses not to give iPhone 3G and EDGE uses video recording, I completely understand.

Are you saying that the next iphone could have video quality comparable to a minDv camcorder? I doubt that.

 

[aok1975]

cycorder sample video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NKqQwpXhfs

not good enough for your wedding, but good for youtube.

 

[milani]

Sometimes people forget we're talking about a phone, I think.

 

[mavis]

Completely wrong. Both iPhones are capable of recording video. Please research before posting.

Ah, my old friend irony. Welcome to the discussion.

Basically you'd like us to believe that you know better than Apple's engineers about the slow, cheap NAND flash memory they use in the iPhone and its write endurance? That's amazing! You really should get in touch with the higher-ups at Apple and let them know that they've got it all wrong, that they don't have to worry about that cheap memory they've used failing prematurely when people start constantly overwriting data with large video files.