I want to extract frames as UIImage from a video. That's why I used AVAssetImageGenerator.
First I saved times
var frameCount = 0;
var maximumFrame = 300;
let duration = asset.duration
let vid_length : CMTime = duration
let timeScale = vid_length.timescale
let seconds : Double = CMTimeGetSeconds(vid_length)
var times = [CMTime]()
var timeForGetImage : Double = 0
let step : Double = 0.033
while(frameCount < maximumFrame && timeForGetImage <= seconds) {
let time : CMTime = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(timeForGetImage, preferredTimescale: timeScale)
times.append(time)
timeForGetImage+=step
frameCount += 1
}
for getting frames as Images I used this method
let imageGenerator : AVAssetImageGenerator = AVAssetImageGenerator.init(asset: asset)
imageGenerator.requestedTimeToleranceAfter = CMTime.zero
imageGenerator.requestedTimeToleranceBefore = CMTime.zero
imageGenerator.appliesPreferredTrackTransform = true
imageGenerator.maximumSize = CGSize(width: height, height: height)
imageGenerator.generateCGImagesAsynchronously(forTimes: times as [NSValue]) { (requestedTime, cgImage, actualTime, result, error) in
if result == .succeeded {
let thumb : UIImage = UIImage.init(cgImage: cgImage!)
/// doing some operation
} else {
print("nil") /// I've found some images are nil
}
}
Here I got some nil cgImages. I don't know why they are nil. But I need to get all frames as cgImages by using time period.
How to solve?
I know there is another approach using imageGenerator.copyCGImage method. But it takes too much time to produce all frames as UIImage```