why on earth does the g1 not capture video?

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???? street view.. yes? video capture..no?? wtf

There will be a 3rd party program within a week that can record video. Jailbroken iPhones do it, the G1 is completely open... No worries.

g1 recording video

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I think ( *think* ) the reason is that qualcom and broadcom are in a legal dispute over some aspects of H.264 encoding in hardware and until till that is cleared up, no "official" recording apps will be made.

Originally Posted by walscobry

I think ( *think* ) the reason is that qualcom and broadcom are in a legal dispute over some aspects of H.264 encoding in hardware and until till that is cleared up, no "official" recording apps will be made.

Yeah, I never said official. I just know there are plenty of people out there who want it, so developers will throw a program together in no time.

G1 Video File Formats...?

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I have a trip coming up, with lots of airport connections/layovers. I used to convert video files and copy them to microSD cards for playback in my WinMo device. Will I be able to do this on my G1? What, if any, file formats will it support?

From what I can read, it plays videos with a YouTube player; can I somehow use that...?

youtube's format is flv you can try to convert to that
other then that it support whatever formats people develop
players to support

Does the g1 support video output?

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Well...does it? It would be very convenient if it did. :D

the G1 does not have video out at this time.

well duh....i was thinking more along the lines of the hardware. the chipset has to be able to output video using the ext-usb cable thing...

only way is over tcp/ip. But there are no apps for that yet.
it could be like a vnc server or video streaming.
but how would it be convenient?