Hi, I am struggeling playing a video from a PHAsset fetched from the photo library. Web url or url from bundle works fine (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftui/how-to-play-movies-with-videoplayer). There are many examples for that. But I cannot find any hints to create an URL for a PHAsset. I hope someone can give me an advice. THX best regards Sven

I found this here

PHCachingImageManager().requestAVAsset(forVideo: phAsset, options: nil) { (avAsset, , ) in print(avAsset) }

but avAsset is always nil :-(

Assuming you're using picker(_ picker: PHPickerViewController, didFinishPicking results: [PHPickerResult]), this was unexpectedly complicated, but some important things I discovered:

1. The video may not be available on the device and needs to be downloaded from iCloud, which is an asynchronous operation.
2. Once you get the URL you need to store it immediately, otherwise it will no longer be available.

Some pointers... given let videoId = UTType.movie.identifier:

1. Grab the item provider, e.g. let provider = results.first?.itemProvider
2. Ensure it's a video provider.hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier(videoId).
3. Load the file, optionally getting the progress object let progress = provider.loadFileRepresentation(forTypeIdentifier: videoId) {. The progress object is useful to display within your app because depending on the video it can take a few seconds or several minutes to download.
4. Store the file to disk within the loadFileRepresentation method and pass the new URL to wherever your app needs it.