ios5 - Access the videos in Videos app of an iOS device in my app

Question

I am developing an application to choose and and play videos in iPad. I want to choose the videos saved in the default Videos app present in the device. How can I access those videos in my application?

Answer 1

You can use an MPMediaQuery for videos which will give you a list of videos and urls for the video assets that you can use in the AVFoundation framework. For an example, see the accepted answer here:

MPMediaPickerController with video media types not working