Remove video recording time limit?

[Daremo]

No answer in the iPod forum, so I figured more people might read it here since the iPhone has the same issue.


Does anyone know if there is a way to remove the 4GB / 49:51 minute video recording cap? I used Greenpois0n to jailbreak, even though that likely makes no difference. I thought maybe there was something I could install through Cydia to remove the cap.

Or a suggestion of a HD video recorder app that has no limit?

 

[Benji222]

I had no idea this even existed. Maybe you could ask a dev like chpwn to do this?

Why on earth do you need this o.o?

 

[QuarterSwede]

Can the iDevices even address files larger than 4GB? That's most likely a hardware limit.

 

[Daremo]

I had no idea this even existed. Maybe you could ask a dev like chpwn to do this?

Why on earth do you need this o.o?

We film a podcast from several angles, and they usually run over an hour, and using the cameras on the iPod and iPhone works really well with a well lit room, but it stops at 49:51 / 4GB. Since it's the only cameras available to us in HD at the moment, they do the job well, but they stop running early. We have to stop, and re-start all the cameras. Removing this limitation would simply make it easier to synch with our exterior audio to the multi angle video recordings.

 

[Daremo]

Can the iDevices even address files larger than 4GB? That's most likely a hardware limit.

This is quite possible. I have no idea, so I was hoping a dev might know, or someone may have fixed this. I'm wondering if another video would work. This would certainly let us know if it's hardware or software.

 

[Intell]

Can the iDevices even address files larger than 4GB? That's most likely a hardware limit.

iDevices can playback a video stored on their NAND Flash that are greater than 4Gb and they are formatted with HFS+ which does not have the 4Gb limitation. My guess is that the 4Gb limit is imposed because Apple thinks it'll make people who have a FAT32 computer have less problems when they sync their iDevice.

 

[Daremo]

As I'm testing different video apps, I will post my findings here for anyone who might be interested in this.

Native ios Camera App - Recording Limit: 49:51
Instant Video - Recording Limit: 10:00

 

[tmo1113]

Same boat

So did you ever figure out a way to record longer ???