Oct 18 2008

Cycorder on Jailbroken iPhone

Published by at 9:00 am under Tech,Video

So, I decided to jailbreak the glassbroken iphone:

I used Pwnage following these instructions and it all worked well.

One app I really wanted to try out was Cycorder because it allows you to make videos with the iPhone camera. I used the Cydia installer that comes with Pwnage to install Cycorder. Running the app is simple, just remember to hold the iPhone sideways so the video isn’t sideways like I did here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q282oUWz_FI[/youtube]

Next, I wanted to grab the video and put it on my web site at home. I installed OpenSSH from Cydia or the InstallerApp (not sure which, but they both come with Pwnage), then sftp’d the files over to my home server from the iPhone’s hard drive at /var/mobile/Media/Videos. Remember that OpenSSH’s default login is “root” and the password is “alpine”. (I highly suggest changing the password using the iPhone terminal application.) That directory has .mov files that copy over and play just fine on Windows or the Mac.

Next, I wanted to put the movies up in YouTube because my home server is so slow. It was as simple as uploading anything to YouTube, but the audio was bad. Every few seconds there was a loud hissing noise. So, I used iSquint to convert the .mov files to .mp4 files, uploaded the .mp4 files to YouTube, and that cleared up the audio noise.

Too bad it doesn’t make the quality of the video content any better: 😉

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwkY1Q-weM[/youtube]

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One Response to “Cycorder on Jailbroken iPhone”

  1. Michelleon 06 Feb 2009 at 5:43 am

    Yeah, I just finally uploaded my videos and I had probably 10 of them … all sideways. haha

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