I am creating a app in which i need to record videos and upload it to a server. Now my project has a android version too. To support android version i have to record the videos in mp4 format. I followed this tutorial to set the UIImagePicker media type to movie format imagePicker.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeMovie as String]
The UIImagePickerController is perfect for my requirement and the only thing that i need to change is its saving format to mp4. I tried kUTTypeMPEG4 in mediaTypes but it throws error at the run time with no error description.
This is my video Capture function
func startCameraFromViewController() {
if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(.Camera) == false {
return
}
viewBlack.hidden = false
presentViewController(cameraController, animated: false, completion: nil)
cameraController.sourceType = .Camera
cameraController.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeMovie as String]
//cameraController.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeMPEG4 as String]
cameraController.cameraCaptureMode = .Video
cameraController.videoQuality = .TypeMedium
if(getPurchaseId() as! Int == 0)
{
if(txtBenchMark.text?.isEmpty == false)
{
cameraController.videoMaximumDuration = NSTimeInterval(300.0)
}else{
cameraController.videoMaximumDuration = NSTimeInterval(60.0)
}
}else{
cameraController.videoMaximumDuration = NSTimeInterval(600.0)
}
cameraController.allowsEditing = false
}
I am using Swift 2.2 and Xcode 8 with Use Legacy swift Language version = Yes
Any Alternative Solutions are also appreciated. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I found out that there is no method to directly record videos in mp4 format in swift. only can be converted to required format from apple's quicktime mov format.
Here is some code that you can use to convert the recorded video into MP4:
func encodeVideo(videoURL: NSURL) {
let avAsset = AVURLAsset(URL: videoURL, options: nil)
var startDate = NSDate()
//Create Export session
exportSession = AVAssetExportSession(asset: avAsset, presetName: AVAssetExportPresetPassthrough)
// exportSession = AVAssetExportSession(asset: composition, presetName: mp4Quality)
//Creating temp path to save the converted video
let documentsDirectory = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0]
let myDocumentPath = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: documentsDirectory).URLByAppendingPathComponent("temp.mp4").absoluteString
let url = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: myDocumentPath)
let documentsDirectory2 = NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)[0] as NSURL
let filePath = documentsDirectory2.URLByAppendingPathComponent("rendered-Video.mp4")
deleteFile(filePath)
//Check if the file already exists then remove the previous file
if NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath(myDocumentPath) {
do {
try NSFileManager.defaultManager().removeItemAtPath(myDocumentPath)
}
catch let error {
print(error)
}
}
url
exportSession!.outputURL = filePath
exportSession!.outputFileType = AVFileTypeMPEG4
exportSession!.shouldOptimizeForNetworkUse = true
var start = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(0.0, 0)
var range = CMTimeRangeMake(start, avAsset.duration)
exportSession.timeRange = range
exportSession!.exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler({() -> Void in
switch self.exportSession!.status {
case .Failed:
print("%@",self.exportSession?.error)
case .Cancelled:
print("Export canceled")
case .Completed:
//Video conversion finished
var endDate = NSDate()
var time = endDate.timeIntervalSinceDate(startDate)
print(time)
print("Successful!")
print(self.exportSession.outputURL)
default:
break
}
})
}
func deleteFile(filePath:NSURL) {
guard NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath(filePath.path!) else {
return
}
do {
try NSFileManager.defaultManager().removeItemAtPath(filePath.path!)
}catch{
fatalError("Unable to delete file: \(error) : \(__FUNCTION__).")
}
}