All of us have heard of DreamCatcher’s iPhone Video Recorder. For a long time this was the only choice for recording video, until yesterday. Cycorder, created by Jay Freeman the creator of Cydia, is the new FREE Cydia recording app. read on for differences between the two.
There are many main differences between Jay Freeman and DreamCatcher’s video recording apps is that DreamCatcher’s app compress’ the video after the video recording is done. but Cycorder compress’ it as it is recording so that the second youre done recording, your ready to watch the video. Another difference is that Cycorder doesnt currently record audio as well.
My preference is for Cycorder becuase it seems to have a much clearer picture (even though they both claim to record at up to 15fps) and it having the ability to compress the file so quickly where i can watch it immediately is also a very nice feature.
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that’s very good and I m agree that cycoder have a better quality
i would really like a combination of both. If Video Recorder compressed as it recorded it would be perfect.
I like that you can email, and upload to youtube from Video Recorder tho.
Is there anyway to transfer the videos from cycoder to the laptop?
The videos are put in /var//mobile/Media/Videos I believe.
I like both apps, but I use Cycorder because the full version of Video Recorder is $20 and that’s way too much for this app. Plus saurik said Cycorder will support audio, probably this week (but possibly as part of a premium version which I doubt will be $20).
no email for the 2.01+ for video recorder thats sucks
Jay says audio recording will come soon and the app wont be free anymore
LOL it doesn’t compress the video so quickly so that you can view it right afterwards. It doesn’t compress it at all. Compare file sizes between the IVR and Cycorder. It’s quite ridiculous.
Cycorder /does/ compress the video: it uses MJPEG compression, which is what you get from most point-and-shoot digital cameras that also happen to record video. If you didn’t compress videos you get Showtime, the third video recorder from 1.x, which used 16MB to record a 4s video. Cycorder generates files almost 10x smaller than that.
It is definitely true, though, that Cycorder doesn’t generate /tiny/ files, but it does generate the file sizes I, at least, have come to expect from my previous camera at the quality level I’ve come to expect. IVR generates tiny files, but the files are nearly worthless to me given their much lower quality: I simply don’t enjoy taking them.
I think jay is the best iPhone programer today. He throws these (cydia,winterboard)overnight with none to few bugs. He rocks
I think erica sadun is the best programer for the iPhone. Don’t get me wrong Jay is good, but I think Erica has him beat
To be fair, I wrote Cycorder in a few weeks (not overnight) and I did it a few months ago. I sat on it for a while trying to figure out what I was going to do with it and then ported it to 2.x just in time to get it into the App Store… which never happened (Apple hasn’t even rejected the application yet, or even acknowledged its presence). I’ve finally given up, mostly due to the success of Snapture, and have decided to try out ads for a while and possibly sell it via Cydia.
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The vid quality of Cycorder beats IVR hands down even at best quality setting and low audio.
where do you get it? i checked cycdia and installer and i cant see it
It’s in Cydia…
Is it only for 2.0 onwards?
trick,
you can view in mobilefinder then you put in shell putty.exe ln -s /var/mobile/Library/Downloads DownloadsFolder
you can access in mobilefinder.
how can i upload the video recorded in cycorder to my mac?
i have iMAC, but dont know how to import the video taken from cycorder to my mac….any trick? or instruction?
Install Netatalk from Cydia (its under Networking or use Search) and follow the instructions on its page for getting file sharing working. What you will then want to do is to go into mobile/Media/Videos ;P.
would be cool, if cycorder had a function to encode the files taken later, so i can keep important ones in good quality and the others in low quality…this would save up a lot of space
thanks for the great app!, im surely buying it!
hey i need some help, my mac cant doesnt show my iphone in finder. and im pretty weak with techno and all, what should i do? i have a good set of vids from my cycorder but i have no idea on how to upload it up my mac