November 26, 2008

Using Air Sharing to transfer videos from Cycorder

Air Sharing from Avatron Software is a program to easily transfer files to/from an iPhone to a Mac or PC as if it were a mounted disk. Cycorder is an iPhone app to capture videos.

To transfer videos from cycorder to your PC, you have to scp them to your PC.
(they are stored in /var/mobile/Media/Videos )
ie. from your PC, scp iphoneip:/var/mobile/Media/Videos/*.mov .

However, you can have the videos automatically show up in air sharing by creating a
Videos folder in the air sharing Documents folder and symlinking it to /var/mobile/Media/Videos

First find where the air sharing Documents folder is:
on my iPhone, it is
/var/mobile/Applications/814EA91C-D99A-44C2-9643-8EBDF49E1088/Documents

create a Videos folder using air sharing. the final path is then:
/var/mobile/Applications/814EA91C-D99A-44C2-9643-8EBDF49E1088/Documents/Air\ Sharing/Videos

Find the folder where cycorder writes the video files:
/var/mobile/Media/Videos

delete the Videos directory.

From /var/mobile/Media, symlink it to the air sharing videos directory

ie. ln -s /var/mobile/Applications/814EA91C-D99A-44C2-9643-8EBDF49E1088/Documents/Air\ Sharing/Videos Videos

it should now look like this:

KillerZ:~/Media mobile$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-x— 4 mobile mobile 136 Nov 23 16:28 DCIM/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile 68 Nov 23 16:18 Downloads/
drwxr-x— 3 mobile mobile 136 Nov 23 17:05 Photos/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile 68 Nov 23 16:36 PublicStaging/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 mobile mobile 90 Nov 26 21:30 Videos -> /var/mobile/Applications/814EA91C-D99A-44C2-9643-8EBDF49E1088/Documents/Air\ Sharing/Videos/
-rw-r–r– 1 mobile mobile 0 Nov 23 16:17 com.apple.itunes.lock_sync
drwxr-xr-x 6 mobile mobile 204 Nov 23 16:36 iTunes_Control/

Now when you capture a video using cycorder, you can just drag out the clips using air sharing.

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