Apple posts iPhone OS 3.1 beta, SDK with new video extensions

Although iPhone OS 3.0 is just cooling off, Apple has already given developers early access to iPhone OS 3.1 with new hooks for video support.

Seeded to developers on Tuesday night, the first beta and a matching SDK are said by those familiar with the releases to include roughly a dozen new extensions for the OpenGL ES graphics library that developers can use to improve graphics on the iPhone 3GS, which is needed to support the standard.

They also reportedly give programmers their choice of video recording quality as well as a pair of new app interface classes that are known to relate to graphics, but which haven't had their functions identified.

Xcode 3.1.3 has also been released and is said by people aware of the update to improve facilities for creating a new project as well as setting a target configuration.

Apple's release is a quick turnaround and unusual for hinting at a point release so soon after 3.0. In the past, Apple has often preferred to address outstanding bugs first in minor patches rather than more significant revisions that often contain small but noteworthy new features. So far, nothing contained in iPhone OS 3.1 is believed to have added significant components.

16 Comments

alectheking

said about 13 years ago

even better than the 3.0.1 update i was looking forward to.

dreyfus2

said about 13 years ago

When editing/trimming video, you can now save as a copy. Quite useful.

dizzy13

said about 13 years ago

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Originally Posted by dreyfus2

When editing/trimming video, you can now save as a copy. Quite useful.

Yeah, I know a lot of people complained about this one.

nasserae

said about 13 years ago

I know they did not do this in 3.1 but I hope they save videos in dedicated video section instead of the the photo app. I also hope they sync videos with iMovie instead of iPhoto.

MacPro

said about 13 years ago

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Originally Posted by NasserAE

I know they did not do this in 3.1 but I hope they save videos in dedicated video section instead of the the photo app. I also hope they sync videos with iMovie instead of iPhoto.

As a FCPro user in my work I had not paid all that much attention to iLife for movies but I did notice the movies from my wife's small Canon Elf were sucked into her iPhoto not iMovie and at the time thought this odd. Now I have actually played with this a bit more I can see why this is. iPhoto is the storage area and iMovie is for the editing. You can easily access the movies to edit via the media bin. To have added a full, sortable movie library function to iMovie would have been redundant IMHO with iPhoto sitting there. Perhaps iPhoto needs a new name ... iMedia for example?