iOS: get video duration and thumbnails without playing video

Question

I need to get a (local) video\'s duration, and then get access to its individual frames as UIImages. So far I\'ve been using MPMoviePlayerController fo

Answer 1

You can get in swift like this

func getMediaDuration(url: NSURL!) -> Float64{
    let asset : AVURLAsset = AVURLAsset(URL: url) as AVURLAsset
    let duration : CMTime = asset.duration
    return CMTimeGetSeconds(duration)
}