.mov file won't play, left with unmerged .caf audio and .mp4 files

[sfergusond]

Hi everyone, I was recording on my un-jailbroken iPad (iOS 6.1) today. When I finished, my 16 minute video was shown in three different files, one .mov file (359 MB), one .mp4 file (607 MB), and one .caf file (82 MB). The .mov file was unable to play anything, the .mp4 was able to play the video without sound, and the .caf could play the audio. Any help? Thanks.

[nicolasgomollon]

Hhmmm… those sound like big files. It sounds like your device might not have had enough disk space at the time to combine both files to the .mov because it won't delete the source files unless the merging succeeds.
Or maybe you didn't give it enough time to merge. On my repo, I disable the UI until the merging completes to prevent the user from switching tabs, and killing the merge during long merges.

Try taking a look at the console for a Failed: %@ message.

Make sure you have enough disk space before attempting to record long videos.

This issue should be marked as closed.

[sfergusond]

Thanks for the quick reply. I tested out a few short videos, and everything works perfectly, so it is probably a disk space issue. I cleared out a few unnecessary apps and things on my device, so hopefully it should work better.

[Kenned-jiro]

I have almost the same issue on my iPad 3, but :

• the .mp4 doens't even work
• I have 2.9 Gb free...

I tried to remove and install the app again, even removing the profile in the Settings nothing changed.

[coolstar]

On the Retina iPads, you must set the video size to 50% for it to be able to encode it. This is an issue with the iPad's hardware not being able to encode video as large as it's screen.

[Kenned-jiro]

I tried every size and setting but frequency, it doesn't work. :/

EDIT : Now it works sometimes, but not always. It seems I just have to stay about 5-10 sec on the first screen after starting the recording. :)