iPhone Video Recorder now available for 2.0+ and iPhone 3G

By Aaron Besson at 22 August, 2008, 11:38 am

The iPhone Video Recorder for 2.0+ firmware and the iPhone 3G is now, it cost $19 USD for a license and available on Cydia for download and install on your iPhone or iPhone 3G.

iPhone Video Recorder (for 2G and 3G iPhone) is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance . With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, upload to Youtube, or send it out by email as you wish.

Installing this on 2.0 for now is not as straight forward as tapping install in Cydia, here are some instructions and basic requirements.

Requirements:
You need a jailbroken iPhone with firmware 2.X (instructions can be found in a lot forums in the net)
You need a SSH server running on it. The most common is openSSH and it can be found on Cydia.

Install Method 1: Cydia method

1) Please add iPhone Video Recorder source http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com to your Cydia installer, and install it.
2) Create a folder called “Documents” in /var/mobile/ and set permission to 777.
3) Create a folder called “Documents” in the /Applications folder and set permissions to 777.
4) Reboot your iPhone.

Install Method 2: Manually method

1) Download and extract the app from http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com/videorecorder3g.app.zip
2) Upload your app to the /Applications folder of your iPhone.
3) Set the permissions of the app to 755 recursively.
4) Create a folder called “Documents” in /var/mobile/ and set permission to 777.
5) Create a folder called “Documents” in the /Applications folder and set permissions to 777.

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