I havent had a chance to play with that yet, I would be interested to know if it handles it seamlessly (like a straight cut) or does some fade in/out jiggery-pokery :-)

Also, I should mention with respect to Crunchie’s comments above, I did just do this, and I realized that the process has changed slightly. After going through the process above you end up with files that are in mp4 format but are labeled with the generic .mov extension. These will NOT play on the device (which is lame) however, just change the extension to .m4v and they work fine.

Cheers!
-B

Do you have any examples of a high quality movie that you have done this with please? I have tried repeatidly, going over your steps as carefully as possible, but everytime the movie gets much bigger

I think you may have missed a step somewhere in there. I will totally admit to probably not explaining it perfectly, but I have used this technique with full motion, high quality audio, etc.. with similar results. (ie a fractional increase in size for each loop added)

I do know that my screenshots are from a now very obsolete version of quicktime, but the basics are the same. (and I think that you can do it now without a ‘pro’ version of quicktime player, if there even is such a thing anymore.

Cheers and good luck!
-B

I had high hopes for your method, but I am pretty sure that the reason your movie didn’t get any bigger is because of the source material used. The picture above shows essentially a 2 colour movie which could be massively compressed. Using a movie with audio and a lot of colors / animation saw my movie going from 0.7seconds (1.9mb) to just over 4:28mins (69.89mb) if you do the math, it appears that the source is simply duplicated.

Back to the drawing board for me :S

Thanks for the nice comments! Although I did not come up with this solution, that honor remains with the developer on the Apple Dev Forums that I got the idea (and most of the instructions) from. I am not posting his name because that site is all confidential and stuff, but he(or she) deserves the credit :-) I merely re-posted out here in the public world so that google can find it :-)

Cheers!
-ben

I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while, you came up with a surprisingly elegant workaround here.

I just tried again and it worked great – brilliant and THANKS!

I just went and double checked my code, and i just left them as .mov files, and they worked fine. As I mentioned, they started out as m4v, i went through the process described above, and ended up with .mov files and they work just fin in the media player.

good luck!
-B

.mov is just a generic wrapper, what matters is what compression your movie is using under that. just change the extension to m4v and see how that works. (presuming you are using m4v to start with)

Cheers!
-B