Wow, when you thought things couldn't get any worse.

Are you by chance on the exynos version of s22 ultra?

How did you install the split APK? It works fine and can record 720p and 4K at 24, 25 and 30fps on my realme 11 pro. Your S22 Ultra should be much more powerful in comparison.

Who is watching YT videos through this app?

The general populace at large? The amount of ads getting plastered and blasted makes me cringe when I see the non-premium YouTube app. I use adblock and also have premium courtesy of YT music subscription so I'm immune for the most part.

But, non-techy people do not know addblock is an option and also prefer not paying for subscription.

In your case. Consider using newpipe, revanced, invidious or even firefox with ublock-origin. Also, disable the YouTube app to remove the app opening.

The list of supported phones is limited to pixel and samsung smartphones but you should be able to sideload from apkmirror and get it to run with some limitations depending on your phone hardware.

Supported on phones running Android 13 or later. Samsung Galaxy S23, S23FE, S23+, S23 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, S24 Ultra Google Pixel 7, 7a, 7 Pro, 8, 8 Pro

For more detailed info check the app website: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera

They already did. The license expired

I guess an oversight on their part. I thought it was 2 years on fairphone. But, good to know.

Should be the latter. Otherwise, we would also be hearing about this from other brands like xiaomi, realme, oneplus.

Stupidity at its finest. The whole point of cheap 3rd party apple accessories is to use workarounds to get past apple DRMs and use them without paying the apple tax.

Blame apple foremost for creating such a market in the 1st place. You don't need such workarounds in other phones because they just work.

What good are 5-7 years of updates? If you don't let us repair our phones when we need. Assuming, everything else is fine.

I disagree. If google hadn't opened up, manufacturers wouldn't have bothered. We also have great UIs like oneui with useful quality of life features not found in stock android. Not to mention a longer update cycle than even Google the developer of android.