Transfer MMS-Videos from iPhone to macbook pro

Hello Together,

does anyone know if it's possible to transfer videos, revieved over mms to the computer? How does it work?

Thanks for your help!

Greetz,
Mark

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 19, 2009 5:31 AM

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Dec 20, 2009 10:10 AM in response to nizza1985

I have same question.

3GS. Up to date software. Not jailbroken.

I receive MMS videos from friends (who do not have iphone), and while I can play them and "tap to save" to photo roll (and play them from there also), they are not showing up in iphoto when I connect my iphone. Although videos I take DO show up. Image Capture is the same. It is like my macbook thinks the video doesn't exist.

I ended up emailing the MMS Video to myself (so I could save it) and it is a .3gp video file. It played fine from my email to myself (and I can import it from my email to iphoto and it recognizes it and plays it in quicktime). But would this video filetype prevent it from being recognized by iphoto? It recognizes everything else in my photo roll and can import photos and other videos (ones I took) just fine.

Thoughts?

Jan 4, 2010 4:17 PM in response to Blakely

similar problem: iphone 3G, someone MMS'd me a video. i can watch it from the message and save it to my Camera Roll. When I look at the Photo Albums page the number of items next to Camera Roll is 1 greater than the number displayed at the bottom of the actual Camera Roll page.

The video is in there according to Photo Albums, and it's in Camera Roll, but Camera Roll can't see it once you're acutally in there. Same with if I connect to iPhoto -- no video file available to grab.

It's there but it's not. Any ideas?

(yes, i've read the manual.)

Jan 26, 2010 9:03 AM in response to nizza1985

Ok, I found a third party app that helped me find the video I was looking for on my iPhone. It's a Mac program called iPhone Explorer. When in the program, my file was in the DCIM folder then the 100APPLE folder, and it had a .3gpp file extension. Hope this helps. It worked for me.

Also, I talked to a support person about this problem before I found the program and he said it was probably not working because of the file type, since it was shot and sent from another phone.

Thanks,
Clayton

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