video edition

[jmv38]

Is there some way to access each picture of a video, one by one?
And to write it back into a video asset?
ObjC utils maybe have such capabilities? (the photo app shows thumbnails of one video picture by picture).
Thanks!

[edit] btw, Pythonista is a.w.s.o.m.e !

[jmv38]

@JonB thanks for the detailed explanation
My goal is not very well defined. I kind of dream about using pythonista to analyse videos to do superresolution, object tracking, dynamic 3d modeling, etc... Still a long way to go. I just think the ipad is an extraordinary tool if you can bend it to your will. Pythonista seems to enable that, with very low coding skills requirements (i mean: that match mine, and with the help of super-pro coders like you), i find that awsome and i am trying to see how far it can go.

here is the last version of my code

# coding: utf-8
'''

get frames of a video, and show them in an imageview.

based on objc code below
AVURLAsset *asset = [[AVURLAsset alloc] initWithURL:url options:nil];
AVAssetImageGenerator *generator = [[AVAssetImageGenerator alloc] initWithAsset:asset];
generator.requestedTimeToleranceAfter =  kCMTimeZero;
generator.requestedTimeToleranceBefore =  kCMTimeZero;
for (Float64 i = 0; i < CMTimeGetSeconds(asset.duration) *  FPS ; i++){
  @autoreleasepool {
    CMTime time = CMTimeMake(i, FPS);
    NSError *err;
    CMTime actualTime;
    CGImageRef image = [generator copyCGImageAtTime:time actualTime:&actualTime error:&err];
    UIImage *generatedImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithCGImage:image];
    [self saveImage: generatedImage atTime:actualTime]; // Saves the image on document directory and not memory
    CGImageRelease(image);
  }
}

modified by jmv38
see discussion https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3621/video-edition/1
'''
from objc_util import *
import ui,time,os,photos,gc
from math import ceil

# select a video
assets = photos.get_assets(media_type='video')
asset = photos.pick_asset(assets)
duration=asset.duration

# init frame picker
phasset=ObjCInstance(asset)
asseturl=ObjCClass('AVURLAsset').alloc().initWithURL_options_(phasset.ALAssetURL(),None)
generator=ObjCClass('AVAssetImageGenerator').alloc().initWithAsset_(asseturl)

from ctypes import c_int32,c_uint32, c_int64,byref,POINTER,c_void_p,pointer,addressof, c_double

CMTimeValue=c_int64
CMTimeScale=c_int32
CMTimeFlags=c_uint32
CMTimeEpoch=c_int64
class CMTime(Structure):
   _fields_=[('value',CMTimeValue),
   ('timescale',CMTimeScale),
   ('flags',CMTimeFlags),
   ('epoch',CMTimeEpoch)]
   def __init__(self,value=0,timescale=1,flags=0,epoch=0):
      self.value=value
      self.timescale=timescale
      self.flags=flags
      self.epoch=epoch
c.CMTimeGetSeconds.argtypes=[CMTime]
c.CMTimeGetSeconds.restype=c_double

kCMTimeZero = CMTime.in_dll(c,'kCMTimeZero')
generator.setRequestedTimeToleranceAfter_(kCMTimeZero, restype=None, argtypes=[CMTime])
generator.setRequestedTimeToleranceBefore_(kCMTimeZero, restype=None, argtypes=[CMTime])

lastimage=None  # in case we need to be careful with references
fps = 30
tactual=CMTime(0,fps) #return value
currentFrame = 0
maxFrame = ceil(duration*fps)

def getFrame(i):
  t=CMTime(i,fps)
  cgimage_obj=generator.copyCGImageAtTime_actualTime_error_(t,byref(tactual),None,restype=c_void_p,argtypes=[CMTime,POINTER(CMTime),POINTER(c_void_p)])
  
  image_obj=ObjCClass('UIImage').imageWithCGImage_(cgimage_obj)
  ObjCInstance(iv).setImage_(image_obj)
  global lastimage
  lastimage=image_obj #make sure this doesnt get gc'd
  gc.collect() # to avoid pytonista random exit sometimes
  root.name=' frame:'+str(i)+' time:' +str(tactual.value/tactual.timescale)

# set up a view to display
root=ui.View(frame=(0,0,576,576))
iv=ui.ImageView(frame=(0,0,576,500))
root.add_subview(iv)

# a slider for coarse selection
sld = ui.Slider(frame=(100,500,376,76))
sld.continuous = False
root.add_subview(sld)
def sldAction(self):
  global currentFrame
  currentFrame = int(duration*self.value*fps)
  getFrame(currentFrame)
sld.action = sldAction

# buttons for frame by frame
prev = ui.Button(frame=(5,510,90,50))
prev.background_color = 'white'
prev.title = '<'
def prevAction(sender):
  global currentFrame
  currentFrame -= 1
  if currentFrame < 0: currentFrame = 0
  sld.value = currentFrame / fps / duration
  getFrame(currentFrame)
prev.action = prevAction
root.add_subview(prev)

nxt = ui.Button(frame=(480,510,90,50))
nxt.background_color = 'white'
nxt.title = '>'
def nxtAction(sender):
  global currentFrame
  currentFrame += 1
  if currentFrame > maxFrame: currentFrame = maxFrame
  sld.value = currentFrame / fps / duration
  getFrame(currentFrame)
nxt.action = nxtAction
root.add_subview(nxt)

root.present('sheet')
getFrame(currentFrame)

[jmv38]

oh, sorry, i misread you question

Depending on what sort of processing you are doing, there are different writing options

i intend to do numpy processing with float or complex, and when the processing is done, fetch back to RGB 24bits (or whatever format required to get a video)

[jmv38]

the above code gives this screenshot:

[jmv38]

Hello @JonB
If I may ask, this message is just to know if you intend to look at the video writing problem? (I dont mean to harass you on that subject, you've already been a terrific help, thank you so much, this is just to know f you are working on it or not, to adjust my own coding plans with what you plan to share). Thanks!

[JonB]

@jmv38 I think what you probably are going to want is an AVVideoComposition, which lets you use standard or custom CIFilters to process a movie.

I am playing around with getting AVAssetReader workng, though I might not get a lot of time to work on this for a few weeks

[jmv38]

Thanks for your answer @JonB
I had a look at apple's doc on videocomposition. It is way over my head, so I'll postpone this part of my project to an indefinite date. And for now I'll focus on the many other parts that still need to be written, and are more within my reach...
Thanks!

[JonB]

btw, in the meantime, you should be able to access the imageview.image to get a ui.image, which you can the convert to jpg or png to write to a sequence of files, or PIL image for processing, etc.

[jmv38]

Correct. This is what i really needed in the first place. The video writing capability is just the 'cherry on the cake'.

[jmv38]

i found this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5640657/avfoundation-assetwriter-generate-movie-with-images-and-audio
The very first bloc of code in this topic is sufficient i think (i dont want to alter audio).
Is it possible to embed the whole code and pass it just the video and the image? Or do I have to call each line with objc utils?

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[cvp]

@SandraGarrett more info on the .in_dll() method here

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