How can I programmatically capture a screenshot of a playback video?

Question

I want to take a screenshot for playing video in xcode. How can I do this programmatically? I found a screenshot method in an Apple document as follows. The method works fine if I just want to take a screenshot. However, it does not work with playable video.

- (UIImage*)screenshot 
{
    // Create a graphics context with the target size
    // On iOS 4 and later, use UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions to take the scale into consideration
    // On iOS prior to 4, fall back to use UIGraphicsBeginImageContext
    CGSize imageSize = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size;
    if (NULL != UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(imageSize, NO, 0);
    else
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(imageSize);

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    // Iterate over every window from back to front
    for (UIWindow *window in [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows]) 
    {
        if (![window respondsToSelector:@selector(screen)] || [window screen] == [UIScreen mainScreen])
        {
            // -renderInContext: renders in the coordinate space of the layer,
            // so we must first apply the layer geometry to the graphics context
            CGContextSaveGState(context);
            // Center the context around the window anchor point
            CGContextTranslateCTM(context, [window center].x, [window center].y);
            // Apply the window transform about the anchor point
            CGContextConcatCTM(context, [window transform]);
            // Offset by the portion of the bounds left of and above the anchor point
            CGContextTranslateCTM(context,
                                  -[window bounds].size.width * [[window layer] anchorPoint].x,
                                  -[window bounds].size.height * [[window layer] anchorPoint].y);

            // Render the layer hierarchy to the current context
            [[window layer] renderInContext:context];

            // Restore the context
            CGContextRestoreGState(context);
        }
    }

    // Retrieve the screenshot image
    UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return image;
}

I need to capture a screenshot of the video being played. Any idea?

Answer 1

Hope this code code helps

Capturing a screenshot of the video being played

- (void)setupVideoPlayerView
{
videoPlayerVC = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
videoPlayerVC.view.frame = self.videoPlayerView.bounds;
videoPlayerVC.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
[videoPlayerView addSubview:_videoPlayerVC.view];
[videoPlayerVC setShowsPlaybackControls:NO];
videoPlayerVC.player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:kVideoURL];
[videoPlayerVC.player play];
}

- (UIImage *)snapImageFromRuningVideo
{
AVAsset *assest = [self.videoPlayerVC.player.currentItem asset];
AVAssetImageGenerator *imageGenerator = [AVAssetImageGenerator assetImageGeneratorWithAsset:assest];
CGImageRef imageRef = [imageGenerator copyCGImageAtTime:self.videoPlayerVC.player.currentItem.currentTime actualTime:nil error:nil];
UIImage *screengrab = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
return screengrab;
}

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