Avoid Video Compression when Selecting Movie with UIImagePickerController?

Question

I'm using UIImagePickerController to allow my user to select a video from the asset library.

When the user selects the "Choose" button on the second screen, the view displays a progress bar and a "Compressing Video..." message.

Why is this happening?

Is there some way I can avoid this compression operation?

Answer 1

I'm also having that same problem. any ideas?

Answer 2

Set the videoQuality property of the UIImagePickerController to "High" (UIImagePickerControllerQualityTypeHigh = 0)

From the SDK documentation: "If displaying a recorded movie in the image picker, specifies that you do not want to reduce the video quality of the movie."

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIImagePickerController_Class/UIImagePickerController/UIImagePickerController.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/UIImagePickerControllerQualityType