iOS get video frame rate

Question

I want to get the frame rate for a specific video. I tried to look at APIs in the AVFoundation and AssetsLibrary like AVURLAsset or AVAssetReader. None of them are really helpful. Does anybody know a method in the Apple's frameworks/library to get the frame rate

Answer 1

For iOS 7+ you can use the currentVideoFrameRate property of AVPlayerItemTrack. Its the only consistent property that I've seen measure FPS. The nominalFrameRate property seems to be broken in HLS streams.

AVPlayerItem *item = AVPlayer.currentItem; // Your current item
float fps = 0.00;
for (AVPlayerItemTrack *track in item.tracks) {
    if ([track.assetTrack.mediaType isEqualToString:AVMediaTypeVideo]) {
        fps = track.currentVideoFrameRate;
    }
}