picking and uploading the video for iphone 3g ios 4 - iphone

Question

I want to upload a video from iPhone to a server somewhere.
I have found this useful question here for uploading a video on the server from iPhone.
The only problem here is picking the video. The code is using uiimagepickercontroller to pick up the video and I have a 3g phone which has not video in its photos app. I can't even put a video in it . I have a video only in iTunesU . Currently I am using following snippet for uiimagepickercontroller .
if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:
UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum]) {
UIImagePickerController *picker =
[[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
picker.delegate = self;
picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
else {
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Error accessing photo library"
message:#"Device does not support a photo library"
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:#"Drat!"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
So I have to ask that is it necessary to pick a video from uiimagepickercontroller and if so how can I do so with my iPhone 3G .
Please tell me if the question is not readable.
Thanks .

Answer 1

There is no video support for 3G that I am aware of.
In order to make it work (you could simulate it) you need to pass a mediaType of 'kutTypeMedia', which errors as not available on your device.
'If' you want to test, you can copy a video from the bundle, into your Camera Roll and test on the simulator.
Something like this to copy the video from the bundle to your camera roll:
Copy a video file from your bundle and save it to the album as below!
"Bundle Path :
(Where APPLCIATIONGUID and user are dynamic and depend on the logged on user and the applicationGUID)
'/Users/user/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.0/Applications/APPLICATIONGUID/Documents'
Where APPLICATIONGUID is the GUID associated with your particular project. You can confirm that you are in the right folder by looking for the appropraite .app file.
Note:// I don't believe that this will work with a MOV but have tried nothing but a .m4v.
NSString *filePath = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Documents/VID_0001.m4v"]];
NSString *videoFilepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"VID" ofType:#"m4v"];
NSLog(#"Filepath is: %#", videoFilepath);
//test video can save to the photos album first - code missing
UISaveVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum(filePath, self, #selector(video:didFinishSavingWithError:contextInfo:), nil);*
Once this has been done - videos are available in your photo album for selecting should you be setting up your UIImagePickerController with the correct media type.
This is the only option I see that you have to work with Video without a 3GS.