Video

[JonB]

can you ou be a little more specific on your end goal? are you trying to integrate into a uiview? or just want to preview a video?

for instance, i have code in my objc_hacks repo that plays a video frame by frame, but no audio, etc.
There has been forum code that saves an asset to a local mp4 or mov, then you can play that in a webview, or in the quicklook.

[JonB]

also -- if you do the legwork and find an example of doing this in objc, it is usually pretty straightforward to convert to pythonista.

[robertiii]

Ok. So I want to present a video in a UI view. I'll look around to see what I can find. This part I am pretty clueless on

[robertiii]

The goal is to have video play one place with controls another so the video would be similar to a background

[JonB]

https://gist.github.com/3e708b73a04e5fc2e04569d9556198e3

Okay, this was not too bad. There is a lot of code defining CMTime and seeking ability, which is not needed if you just want to play without seeking.

[robertiii]

Thanks so much! I'll try it when I get a chance! Let you know how it works out

[robertiii]

Video works great!!!!!! Any idea on how to get the name of the selected video?

[JonB]

the phasset (in pick_asset) has a filename() method that returns the filename. You might want to modify that method as

return asseturl, str(phasset.filename() )

[robertiii]

Thanks so much! You are incredible!

[robertiii]

How would I go about removing this avplayer later.

[robertiii]

Also, how would I use a button to go back to the beginning of the video?

[JonB]

You can just remove_subview on the wrapper view to remove it. Technically maybe if you are planning on opening and closing a bunch of these, there is probably some cleanup that is required.

To seek. just use the seek function, and wrap a button action around it, similar to the way the slider action did.

[robertiii]

What cleanup would need to be done? I’m pretty much beginner coding.

[robertiii]

Also I’ve tried using the remove and have never been able to figure it out.