How to Use Qik to Video Record With Your iPhone
Earlier this week we announced that popular livestreaming services Qik and Flixwagon were now available for the iPhone. Unfortunately, the only way to get these apps was to have a jailbroken iPhone. Jailbreaking your iPhone is against Apple's terms and conditions and voids your warranty.
For those brave few that have jailbroken their iPhone, here's a way to video record from your iPhone using Qik without broadcasting those hilarious but embarrassing moments to the world.
Option #1
There are two ways to go about video recording from your iPhone. The first is to set your current Qik profile to private by clicking on the 'Group Settings' option on your profile page located under your latest video. In doing so, you get all the features of Qik including the abilities to record, download, and share your videos with friends. However, your entire Qik profile will be private and unavailable to the public, including any previous videos you may have streamed. If you have two phones from which you can use Qik, simply register the number for one phone as a private profile, while keeping your other phone profile set to public.
Option #2
If you'll be at a computer as soon as the video hits Qik, then you easily switch individual videos from public to private on your profile page. To so, find the video in your recent Qik stream located at the bottom of your profile page. You should see an option that says "public", right next to the "delete" link. Click the "public" link and you'll be provided with the option to switch your video to private.
We Wish This Were Easier
You can simply download your videos for later viewing. These workarounds may seem simple, but you have to admit that you wish these extra steps weren't necessary. While it seems Apple won't be integrating video recording functionality into the iPhone anytime soon, it would be nice if Qik could take the initiative to make things easier for iPhone users by adding the option to make a video private right from their app like Flixwagon does. In the meantime, we hope these tips could help you get a great feature that's sadly missing from the iPhone.
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just to clarify, with Flixwagon you can:
-set each video as private, public, or shared with only specific friends, directly from the device, either before or during broadcast (so you only need one phone, not two!).
-set sharing preferences for each individual video when you log in to flixwagon.com.
-default sharing preferences are all forward-looking. i.e. if you set your default setting to public, all your previous private videos will remain private. (and of course you can set different sharing options for different videos).
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Posted by: First | August 16, 2008 9:40 PM
You can make a video private right from the Qik iPhone app. Just hit the Qik logo in the bottom left corner, and then tap the little padlock icon. Not super obvious, but it's there. They should change the logo to say "options" or replace it with a ubiquitous symbol for settings, like a gear icon or something.
Posted by: Billy D. | August 17, 2008 9:04 AM
I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but Qik is making the idea seem more appealing.
Posted by: Brandon Watts | August 18, 2008 2:50 PM
Jailbreaking is still a PITA and it took me a while to click the logo to see what #3 was saying. They need a decent docs page. What is it with developers and poor documentation this is 2008, aren't we at a baseline about documentation?
What I still don't understand is the on/off start mode setting, and today Qik is slow to grind some of the videos, and other don't even show up. They pushed an upgrade today, still have same problems, but then again I'm on old iphone.
Still has a way to go but we're getting there, exciting and can't wait to stream more video live. Qik needs a Ustream upload as well.
Posted by: Dave Evans | August 18, 2008 7:38 PM