I want to be able to capture my iPhone's screen as a video, but I'm not sure the best way to do this.
Can anyone help guide me on how to best do this?
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I dont believe this is possible. Your best bet is to get something like iShowU and capture from the simulator.
Lounges
2008-10-14 05:43:34
+5
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Short of using a video camera, no.
Many youtube videos for demonstrating iPhone applications are made with a screen grabber application (such as iShowU, ScreenFlow, or Snapz Pro) and the simulator. Be aware that the speed of response in the simulator can be dramatically different than a device - so it's possible to get effects (and miss) with the simulator you'll never see on a device. In particular, default animations can flash by in the simulator, where they just look quick on a device.
heckj
2008-10-14 05:50:45
"Short of using a video camera, no.": wrong, see my answer.
Mk12
2009-08-17 01:42:49
having a similiar problem myself with the speed of video capture. Why do you say that there is no other solution? is there really no way to channel to some tvout to a video file?
michelle
2010-06-16 21:26:18
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I've continued to research this item myself, and it does appear to remain beyond us at this point.
I even tried buying a Apple Composite AV Cable, but it doesn't capture screen, just video playing like YouTube, etc.
So I decided to go with the iShowU path and that has worked out well so far.
Thanks Guys!
CJCraft.com
2008-10-17 18:20:23
+2
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www.iphonevideorecorder.com. There's a free trial I think, but after that you'd need to buy it. And you need to jailbreak your iphone.
Mk12
2009-08-13 00:47:35
That's not what you want. In Cydia, if you Jailbreak, there will soon be a paid application by Ryan Petrich (member of this site: http://stackoverflow.com/users/4007/rpetrich ) which is called "Display Recorder", and will get you a /much/ better video.
chpwn
2010-05-08 22:01:20
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I made a plugin for the simulator that does just this. You can find it at my blog.
It actually records the screen. It does not rely on another screen capture program like iShowU.
It will install icons for the default apps and change the carrier text to look like a real device.
David Beck
2009-10-28 23:08:09
+1
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You could use the video-out and capture that somehow with a firewire or sumthing.. The class MPTVOutWindow can help you out! Here's a nice sample of that!
http://iphone-developers-nc.googlegroups.com/web/UIApplication%5FTVOut.m
Fossli
2009-12-08 08:24:47
and yeah. here's some more resource on that one.http://www.touchcentric.com/blog/archives/3
Fossli
2009-12-08 08:25:05
+3
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Loren Brichter the developer of Tweetie2 wrote this little app called SimFinger to make iphone screencasts top notch!
http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/
Love apps that make amateurs look like pros :)
Ryan Graves
2010-05-08 21:57:27