iPhone Video Recorder With Audio Recording Support
Independent iPhone hacker/dev DreamCatcher has released updated iPhone Video Recorder to v1.1.6, finally adding support for recording
audio with the video. Naturally I decided to download it and give it a test run, and while at first it was a little wacky,
I ended up with a decent little video clip.
Over all it's not bad, but the first few test runs resulted in some unusual behavior on my iPhone's part.
Oddly enough, it seems to do better when the image quality is set to the default "Better" quality.
Lowering this setting resulted in my iPhone briefly freaking out during recording and restarting, and the resulting videos were unplayable.
That said, higher settings did yield decent results.
The videos encode to .mp4 format, which is handy. They were fairly grainy as well, but that's what you get from a 2 megapixel camera.
Also, just a tip, but I find that the audio is much clearer with the 'Recording volume amplifier' setting boosted higher rather than lower.
What's not so great about this app is that he's asking US$19.95 for a license to register for more than 30 seconds of recording time,
but apparently the ffmpeg that it's based on is open source, so needless to say that some are pretty upset at the price.
If you would like to install the app, just add
http://www.iphone-recorder.com/install2 as a source in Installer. app
and find it under 'Multimedia'. You can learn more about the app from iPhoneDevRecorder.com.