Swift Video to Document Directory

How to save video data to document directory in swift?

In your Info.plist, add the following permissions:

Supports opening documents in place: YES

Application supports iTunes file sharing: YES

let videoFilename = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)[0] + "/" + getFileName() //return your filename from the getFileName function
videoNSData.write(toFile: videoFilename, atomically: true)

Then, inside Files, you can get a folder named with your app name, where you can access your saved video file (with the specified filename).

How to play video file from documentdirectory using avplayer

swift 3/4 100%%%%%%% workable

Recorder open video camera

@IBAction func RecordAction(_ sender: Any) {

        if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.camera){
            print("CameraAvailable")
            let imagePicker = UIImagePickerController()
            imagePicker.delegate = self
            imagePicker.sourceType = .camera
            imagePicker.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeMovie as String]
            imagePicker.allowsEditing = false
            imagePicker.showsCameraControls = true

            self.present(imagePicker,animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

        else{
            print("CameraNotAvailable")
        }
    }

save to document directory

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
        // recover video URL
        let url = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL] as? URL
        // check if video is compatible with album
        let compatible: Bool = UIVideoAtPathIsCompatibleWithSavedPhotosAlbum((url?.path)!)
        // save
        if compatible {
            UISaveVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum((url?.path)!, self, nil, nil)
            print("saved!!!! \(String(describing: url?.path))")

        }
        videopath = url //save url to send next function play video
        dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
//   error
    func video(_ videoPath: String, didFinishSavingWithError error: Error?, contextInfo: UnsafeMutableRawPointer) {
    }

play video from Document directory

 @IBAction func playvideo(_ sender: Any)
    {
        let player = AVPlayer(url: videopath!)  // video path coming from above function

        let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
        playerViewController.player = player
        self.present(playerViewController, animated: true) {
            playerViewController.player!.play()
        }
}

I am trying to access the video from the Document directory and i am getting error No such file or directory

Your way to create the URL is cumbersome and outdated. The error occurs because a slash in the URL is missing (the scheme is file://). Never create file system URLs with URL(string anyway. And don't use NSURL in Swift.

Please use the FileManager API. And you cannot read video data as String

do {
    let documentsURL = try FileManager.default.url(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: false)
    let toURL = documentsURL.appendingPathComponent("1VIDEO.MOV")
    let videoData = try Data(contentsOf: toURL)
    print(videoData)
catch {
    print(error)
}        

How to save image or video from UIPickerViewController to document directory?

• Use following steps to save Image to documents directory

Step 1: Get a path to document directory

let path = try! NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLForDirectory(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, inDomain: NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, appropriateForURL: nil, create: false)

Step 2: Append FileName in path

let newPath = path.stringByAppendingPathComponent("image.jpg")

Step 3: Decide filetype of Image either JPEG or PNG and convert image to data(byte)

//let pngImageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) // if you want to save as PNG
let jpgImageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0)   // if you want to save as JPEG

Step 4: write file to created path

let result = jpgImageData!.writeToFile(newPath, atomically: true)

Add above code into your didFinishPickingImage function.

• Use following func to save video to documents directory

  func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) 
  {
      // *** store the video URL returned by UIImagePickerController *** //
      let videoURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL] as! NSURL
  
      // *** load video data from URL *** //
      let videoData = NSData(contentsOfURL: videoURL)
  
      // *** Get documents directory path *** //
      let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, true)[0]
  
      // *** Append video file name *** //
      let dataPath = documentsDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent("/videoFileName.mp4")
  
      // *** Write video file data to path *** //
      videoData?.writeToFile(dataPath, atomically: false)
  }
  

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