Recorded video from iphone 3gs

Getting video from the iphone 3gs to a desktop wirelessly is not difficult.

All you need to do is use the uiimagePicker to get the video. (the only sanctioned way to get videos or images), the imagepicker will give you a nsurl , which you can convert to an nsdata object.

first save it to the docs folder and then all you need to do is open a server socket and make the root directory the documents directory. Obviously for the page to display correctly is going to take a bit of javascript . More on that later.

- (void) pickImage: (id) sender

{

UIImagePickerController *ipc = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];

ipc.sourceType =  UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;

ipc.mediaTypes =[UIImagePickerController availableMediaTypesForSourceType:ipc.sourceType];     

ipc.delegate = self;

ipc.allowsImageEditing = NO;

[self presentModalViewController:ipc animated:YES];

}

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info

{

NSString *mediaType = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];

if ([mediaType isEqualToString:@"public.image"]){

// UIImage *selectedImage = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

UIImage *image = [info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];

    NSLog(@"found an image");

[UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0f) writeToFile:[self findUniqueSavePath] atomically:YES];

    SETIMAGE(image);

CFShow([[NSFileManager defaultManager] directoryContentsAtPath:[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/Documents"]]);

}

else if ([mediaType isEqualToString:@"public.movie"]){

NSURL *videoURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];

NSLog(@"found a video");

        NSData *webData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:videoURL];

//NSData *video = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:videoURL];

[webData writeToFile:[self findUniqueMoviePath] atomically:YES];

CFShow([[NSFileManager defaultManager] directoryContentsAtPath:[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/Documents"]]);

// NSLog(videoURL);

}

[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

}

Heres another sequence of images. 

In this sequence, we pick a video from the uiimagePicker, convert to an Nsdata object, and write the object to the documents folder. We create an Nsurl from that and play it via a request in a uiwebview.

-(void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info{

NSString *mediaType = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];

if ([mediaType isEqualToString:@"public.image"]){

// UIImage *selectedImage = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

NSLog(@"found an image");

}

else if ([mediaType isEqualToString:@"public.movie"]){

NSURL *aURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];

NSLog(@"found a video");

// NSLog(videoURL);

// }

[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

//create a frame that will be used to size and place the web view

CGRect webFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];

webFrame.origin.y -= 20.0; // shift the display up so that it covers the default open space from the content view

//webFrame.size.height -=toolbarHeight;

UIWebView *aWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:webFrame];

self.webView = aWebView;

aWebView.scalesPageToFit = YES;

aWebView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;

aWebView.autoresizingMask=(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth);

NSData *webData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:aURL];

//NSData *video = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:videoURL];

NSString *fPath = [NSString alloc] ;

fPath = [self findUniqueSavePath];

NSLog(fPath);

[webData writeToFile:fPath atomically:YES];

CFShow([[NSFileManager defaultManager] directoryContentsAtPath:[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/Documents"]]);

[aWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath: fPath]]];

}

}

More updates and code comiing soon.