I could put a video of the old 1984-esque Apple commercial for my work number.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

sweet, i'll take it. this gets me excited for the real apps to come with the SDK

MrBlahBlah

I suddenly and at the same time: a) wanted to sell my iPhone b) lost faith in man kind

thechansen

"sorry i couldn't answer dude, i haven't gotten through the whole sponge bob i used for your ringtone."

tucker

i dont know if you mean this just for the iPhone, but i've had this feature on my Muziq since the day i got it. and on the Muziq you can have a video as a wallpaper when you open the phone.

amccombs15

so, I'd love to know the repo...

kiffallen

@OMG! Ponies!: You know, it could just be the Ballmer Steve. So it's just a smaller guy wearing glasses and sweaters, jumping up and down and screaming about developers.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Steve Gates?! They couldn't. They wouldn't!

My mind is boggled at the thought of a bespectacled, mock turtleneck-wearing Zen master who stamps out diseases in Africa while creating a unified computing platform, creating a world with a computer on every desktop and bringing down the RIAA, with an industry standard office suite to boot.

This would be a formidable being indeed.

OMG! Ponies!

Awesome, this definitely needs to be available for the iPhone 2.0 release :D

pzich

I could not have thought of a faster way to pointlessly drain your battery.

dagamer34

Why do i see this app doing real well among the "ringback" tone users? When my phone rings I'll hear the tone and look at the picture ID/caller ID...I guess it's cool to show off? I dunno...to each his own I guess.

Nykwil

@ethanlechcharles: you also show it to everyone around you and successfully establish within a 10 ft radius a higher level of douchieness, unattained by just having the latest chris brown single for a ringtone.

Nykwil

@qhead7: The main point is who cares if this can be done on the iphone or any other phone. Oh you're phone was able to do it first? Congrats, at having such an annoying feature included on your phone. This is a 3rd party unofficial app, not something Apple came up with. And thank god for that, because this is an annoying concept, that I hope sticks with the "where u at?" niche and never becomes mainstream.

Nykwil

Here is usually what happens with phones:
Your iPhone rings, you take it out of your pocket and you press talk.

Here's what will happen with video ringtones:
Your iphone rings, you take it out of your pocket and you watch the video ringtone until the person hangs up or gets voicemail.

ethanlechcharles

@Leonard Nimrod: Ringback tones are just about the worst idea ever. If I call your phone, and get a ringback tone, I've just called your number for the last time.

wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!

@dagamer34: Yeah, I'm definitely all for this from a oh that's clever, but there's no way I'd waste my battery life on it standpoint, but that's about it. I tend to subscribe to the IGN way of thinking-- if all the data in front of me doesn't do anything to make my life and day more efficient, I'm out. So, like IGN's endlessly overwrought design (talk about putting makeup on a pig, Lord) I'm going to have to tell this little artifact thanks but no thanks.

wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!

Yeah Ballmer screaming would be cool...........NOT. How about a sexy silhouette of a woman dancing. That would take off quick.

Ken_Darrow

It's still considerably less annoying than ringback tones.

Leonard Nimrod

@amccombs15: yeah ive had this on my w580i since the day it came out. iphone has a lot of idea stealing to do to even compare to sony ericsson features.

qhead7

We've BEEN doing this with the Verizon Voyager. Nothing to see here, move along.

allstarecho

@mobilehavoc: sure, let's just ignore the revolutionary gui and interaction on the iphone and pretend that the s60 platform hasn't tried to shove the same thing down our throats for the last 5 years.

at least have the decency to dream me a hooker.

Paradise

Not a big deal, you can have a video as a ringtone for S60 devices for a long time now. Welcome to the party iPhone...late as usual

mobilehavoc

@qhead7: How the hell can you blame Apple for stealing when this was developed by a third party? I don't know who's worse the fanboys or haters.

Regarding the app, I installed it and it works. Then I deleted it.

Tank

Yeah, this thing just pooped on my installer, which then pooped on my phone... I think I'm going to wait a few days and let them fix the repo. Sweet idea though - they should figure out a way to link it to the videorecorder app so that you can replace the embarrassing pictures that pop up when your friends call with embarrassing videos of them.

behavin

Steve Gates? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

sonicwind

@dagamer34:
lul good point...

Ferg1

Look, another thing I have been able to do on my Blackberry since day one, I am way over this whole jesus phone thing.

weischris

its funny that all of you that have phones that are apparently so much greater than the iPhone are still reading ALL of the iPhone posts AND commenting on them. I for one kinda like the idea of video ringtones. Those of you that are hating on it seem to think that you must have hour long videos for it. is it so hard to fathom that one could have a 5 second long video clip of your best friend faceplanting after a failed kickflip? or your girlfriend doing a little dance? not so bad anymore huh?

elduro13

OK so the iphone gets another pointless feature that other phones have had for ages!

I almost wet my pants with excitement, almost!

pradster

Or maybe I'll use a clip of my own musical performance ... if they don't lock out that feature the way they did with ringtones and make it limited to separately purchased content. Something tells me this will be a for-profit only feature.

Brau

OMG i want friends who have this so i can covertly change my ringtone to this:

lulz

negative1

You know how I know they're gay? They have video of Coldplay dancing on their iPhone.

FY9

@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!: Agreed. Ring tones are an abomination.

drywaller79

Although a money shot ringtone would be hilarious, "Oh look honey, you're Mom's calling" *splat*

RobotVampire

Wow, I hope the people who are bragging about how they've had this feature since day one aren't using it, sounds very annoying. God forbid a phone simply ring and display the name and number of the person calling, that just too boring for this red bull drinking, techogasmic world

RobotVampire

@FY9: See, that comment right there. That's inappropriate. And when you tell me to lighten up or other such nonsense to justify your comment, it still won't make it an appropriate comment.

Slurs of all stripes are generally unacceptable. Saying someone has poor taste in music is a-ok; impugning their sexuality is not okay.

OMG! Ponies!

@GadgetPlay: @OMG! Ponies!: Ever see 40 year old virgin? It was merely a quote from a movie. Do you edit out the n-word when you sing along to rap?

thechansen

@OMG! Ponies!: Huh. I thought he meant "gay" as in "lame," not "gay" as in "homosexual." Even if the intent was the latter, I'm not sure that just associating "them" with Coldplay is actually derogatory. I guess I'm not a very good candidate for the PC Police. Carry on, though.

GadgetPlay

@elduro13: the point is: why didn't it deserve it's own post when it first came out for the [insert 3 year old phone here] ? i.e. this is nothing new and shouldn't be posted as something new and exciting. (or next we'll be hearing about the iphone getting an alarm clock or smth.)

back to topic: I've got some video caller ID's set up for people of whom I have a video clip but no picture, but it's pretty useless as I only get to see 0.5ms of the clip every time someone rings me.

shinchan

@RobotVampire: Now that was a funny comment - somehow that kind of video ringtone did not occur to me...

Skeezix404

um like others have said this is actually an old feature.

lilaliendog

uh, this is old, HTC phones have been able to do this forever. way to revolutionize mr jobs.

seriously though, i used to have a funny video of my girlfriend that played when she called

krztov

This app is actually quite useless in it's current form. Hopefully it'll work better in later releases.

1. It's too friggen difficult to get a video to look good and play correctly as a "VideosTone." They even suggest that you buy a $40 piece of software to convert your video to the right size?!?
2. Even if you do get the video to look right when you're ringing, try putting your phone on silent. Oh yeah, it still plays the audio. The only way to combat this is to pull the audio from your video all together and then create a ringtone of the same bit and upload them separately to their respective folders.
3. Once you have the audio separate from the video you have to set them both to play in the preference pane... but they don't play at the same time!!! There's really no way to sync the audio with the video!
4. Are you kidding me?!? I just wasted two hours of my life converting and cropping and moving files to find out that it doesn't work. Yeah, if I wanted to have audio that's 3 seconds ahead of my video, I'd love this app.
As it stands... it is completely worthless.

piano08man

Only problem with this is that so far using the video ringtones kills the silence option.

Icipher

@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!: whats so bad about ringback tones?

patrickjdub2

I'll take one but I'm afraid my iPhone will self destruct when my sugar daddy calls.

+ Watch video

duffyanneal

I can't find it on the installer app. Help a brother out.

Tex1961

I want a Billy Crystal as Miracle Max video.

"Hey! Hello up there! Take da phone outta ya pocket and push dat little ansa button cause I'm callin you! Hey, whatta you doin' dats so important your gonna ignore da phone? And don't say it's got somethin ta do wit true love cause I ain't buyin it!"

bgplpshep

@thechansen: "Do you edit out the n-word when you sing along to rap?"

I'm not sure why I was included with this, as I pretty much said I didn't see anything wrong with the comment (and you just edited the word out yourself). However (now, here's where I get into trouble), I don't consider rap to include singing. Perhaps a rudimentary vocalization or chanting? Singing (to me at least) implies melody. Music has been defined as melody, rhythm and harmony. To consider rap as music (at least in the modern sense), you need to ascribe to the "one out of three ain't bad" school of music theory. I do enjoy music that has rap and "urban" influences, but I'm not down with the notion that some people can say (or "sing") a word and others can't.

I guess, in other words, that I totally reject the entire premise of your question. Please feel free to try again, I'm not trying to be difficult.

GadgetPlay

@GadgetPlay: lol, nah I was mostly just pointing out that was a quote, but you get the idea.

thechansen

@thechansen: I never saw the movie, so I'm a bit behind the curve, but that's nothing unusual for me.

GadgetPlay

ahhh this is awesome. My name is joe and im only 13 but i figured out how to convert the video ringtones to my iphone from my computer. Since a lot of people are having trouble with this i'll give a step by step tutorial. First go to sources under installer and add [app.ifonetec.com], then refresh the sources. Then click the intall button and go to the categorie button and click ifonetec. Then chose videostone and download it. After you download it restart your phone. Then go to settings and click videostone and enable it. After you enable it, go to this source on your computer [www.appleiphoneschool.com] and follow the instructions to # 1 and then download a ssh program. Once the ssh program is downloaded connect your iphone by typing in the i.p adress which u can find in the wifi section of your iphone. then select root as your username and alpine as your password. Once its connected go to root, which is iphone, on your computer and click var/mobile/media/videotone/video then from your computer drag a M4V video into it. And voila then go to videotone on your iphone under settings and chose the video.

pucci123

Is that video Superstar?

dashexpress

@pucci123: If you are truely 13 I'm impressed. my mouth breathing 18 year old brother along with 90% of the students I deal with at school aren't nearly as smart or well spoken. Just throwing that out that since its rare these days...

thechansen

oh and one more thing add this to the end of the url for youtube &ap=%2526fmt%3D6 but im not sure if it works, but you can try it out.

pucci123

thank you "thechansen." If you need some help also with converting videos to M4V format, i recommend this program [www.mediaconverter.org] This can convert any link like youtube to mpv, its simple to use, and just click convert a video or music by url, then chose the file m4v, then fro video codec chose mpeg-4 and for resolution its 320 x 240, then just download the video. Easy as pie, then just drag it to var/mobile/media/videotone/video. And just to let you know thechansen it took like 3 hours of research to figure out how to do this, and how to do this for free, so im not that smart, but thankyou for the complimant anyway. Oh and i almost forgot, you can make your video the new Coldplay commercial! its awesome

pucci123

@behavin:
hi, behaven you can put up video ringtones of your emberrasing friends, lol. You just have to ssh the files from video recorder to videostone.

pucci123