im developing an app for the iphone and im able to get a video using a UIImagePickerController the problem is that the video thats returned by the UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL is not full resoultion -- its only 480 x 360 as opposed to 640 x 480 like the videos that sync to my itunes.
-please someone tell me this is not a limitation of the current sdk? - how can i work around it and is there a way to set the uiimage picker so its taking full res video?
The iphone only has a resolution of 480-by-320-pixels, so UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL being an iphone only library does not return videos at a higher resolution than the phone is capable of displaying. Likely this is to prevent people from accidentally using more bandwidth/cpu/battery power than they would actually need.
I have tested this and apple only uses 480x320 in their you-tube uploads from the iphone. so it doesn't seem possible under the possible SDK. Thats not to say the iphone isnt capable of it, it can take 640x480 resolution video. Looks like we need to wait for the next update of the SDK and see if they have allowed this.
I was surprised to see that no one else is complaining of this because we all want maximum video resolution, especially with HSDPA + faster upload speeds and HD becoming the standard.
I would like to know if anyone has been able to create an app that actually records in 16:9 or 480 x 320 resolution @30 fps that would be awesome!