Turn your iPhone into Video Camera with Cycorder

by Simon Ng on August 25, 2008

Who said iPhone cannot does video? A number of review for iPhone mentioned that iPhone could not record video. The statement may be true for AT&T iPhone or iPhone from other official carriers. But if you already jailbreak it through WinPwn or Pwnage Tool and upgrade to firmware 1.1.4/2.0, your iPhone is no longer limited to photo taking. The release of iPhone Video Recorder in late Apr can already turn your iPhone into a video camera. However, it’s not a free application. Thanks for Cydia’s creator, Jay Freeman. He developed another application called Cycorder to power iPhone’s camera to take video shot. The application was released a couple days ago through Cydia. And the big thing is that it’s *free*.

From my initial study, Cycorder gives a better video quality and recording speed than iPhone Video Recorder. Cycorder offers real-time video compression that records video at around 6 – 15 frames per second with no compression delay and supports 384×288 (television 4:3 aspect ratio). One downside of Cycorder is it cannot record audio. You should, however, expect this feature will be incorporated in coming release (hopefully in Sep & hopefully it’s still free).

Install Cycorder via Cydia
Cycorder is now available through Cydia. You can find it under multimedia category on Cydia. After installation, the iPhone will be restarted automatically. And get ready to take video!

Recording & Playing Video
Similar to the UI of camera, the interface of Cycorder is very simple and intuitive. Just tap the “record” button at the bottom of screen to start recording video. Tap again to stop it. To playback the video, you can the triangle button at the bottom-left. And, Cycorder will show you a list of video you have recorded.

Transfer Video to your computer
If you need to playback the video on your computer, it may be a bit difficult for those whose don’t know SSH. There is currently no easy way to share and send your video out of iPhone. The best and only way to transfer Cycorder’s video to your computer is to use SSH. After you access the iPhone via SSH, you can find the videos under “/User/Media/Videos”.

If you’re not familiar with SSH, you may refer to “Transfer ringtone to iPhone wirelessly using SSH” about the procedures.

Update:Cycorder now supports audio recording and remain *free*

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1 jesse cruz November 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm

How do you ssh video back into the iPhone?

2 Crab November 29, 2008 at 2:31 pm

CYDIA

3 Sabbir December 9, 2008 at 3:12 am

How to get it in installer… am using a 1.1.4
or i hv to shift to cydia installer?

4 Simon Ng December 9, 2008 at 8:19 am

Sabbir, Cycorder is available on Cydia only. You may need to switch to Cydia to use this app.

5 Al December 31, 2008 at 3:10 am

You do not need to ssh back to iphone. There is a very easy but not well-known step, which transfers it by usb. Email me if anyone’s interested.

6 shawn October 20, 2009 at 6:51 am: hey i have a video on cycorder and i am trying to put it on the computer but have no clue how to and you seem to have a way so coulld you help me out

Reply

7 Al December 31, 2008 at 3:12 am

Oops.. Email address: al at syntist dot ftml dot net

8 Fonzi February 2, 2009 at 1:25 am

Could anyone please explain the process to extract movies with Vista OS?

Thank you.

9 jriggs March 29, 2009 at 11:13 pm

or download:
http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/
and browse to
var/mobile/Media/Videos

10 Epong June 6, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Just to share… I think the best method as below URL… http://rdsbc.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/how-to-transfer-video-cycorder-files-to-pc-transfer-files-vol3/

11 azani September 2, 2009 at 2:23 am

Hi Simon,
Ive cydiacorder and shot a few videos but have no faintest idea to transfer them to pc. I know tis may sound naive but ..help!

12 Karim September 9, 2009 at 7:22 am

Video

13 Jamie October 27, 2009 at 8:18 pm

The easiest way to put cycorder bids on you’re pc is to install pixelpipe from app store then install ppvideoenabler from cydia.then take a movie with cycorder.plug iPhone into pc and at the start before iTunes opens it will come up with(1transfer photos.2view files on iPhone.3transfer visors from iPhone .pick transfer videos from iPhone and they will come on you’re pc in VIDEOS or QUICKTIME.also on ppvideoenabler press allow cycorder files to be transfered

14 Jamie October 27, 2009 at 8:22 pm

The easiest way to put cycorder vids on you’re pc is to install pixelpipe from app store then install ppvideoenabler from cydia.then take a movie with cycorder.plug iPhone into pc and at the start before iTunes opens it will come up with(1transfer photos.2view files on iPhone.3transfer videos from iPhone .pick transfer videos from iPhone and they will come on you’re pc in VIDEOS or QUICKTIME.also on ppvideoenabler press allow cycorder files to be transfered