Hello,
I can no longer query for user's Movie or TV Shows. This used to work before iOS 9.
MPMediaPropertyPredicate *predicate =
[MPMediaPropertyPredicate predicateWithValue:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:MPMediaTypeMovie] forProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyMediaType];
MPMediaQuery *query = [[MPMediaQuery alloc] init];
[query addFilterPredicate:predicate];
NSArray *items = [query items];Returns nothing. As does MPMediaTypeTVShow.
Any hints ? Thanks.
Bump up on this question. This completely broke in iOS9 with no word from Apple - the docs still show it as working. I filed a radar but received no response. Thanks.
You can query iTunes movies using the ITLibrary with Cocoa.
AVPlayer seems to have issues with the DRM, even if it says it's DRM free. Maybe Apple can fix this in the future.
You will also need to download the movie from the macOS Apple TV app first, otherwise the item.location will always return nil.
import Cocoa
import iTunesLibrary
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class ViewController : NSViewController {
@IBOutlet var videoView: AVPlayerView!
var videoUrl : URL?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
do {
let library = try ITLibrary.init(apiVersion: "1.0")
if library != nil {
let mediaItems = library.allMediaItems
for item in mediaItems {
if item.isVideo {
if item.isDRMProtected == false {
if item.title == <Video Title> {
print(item.title)
print("item.location: \(item.location)")
print("item.isDRMProtected: \(item.isDRMProtected)")
print("item.isUserDisabled: \(item.isUserDisabled)")
print("item.isCloud: \(item.isCloud)")
print("item.locationType: \(item.locationType)")
videoUrl = item.location
}
}
}
}
}
} catch {
print("error")
}
DispatchQueue.main.async {
if self.videoUrl!.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() {
print("access")
do {
let data = try Data.init(contentsOf: self.videoUrl!)
let fileManager = FileManager.default
var path = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)[0] as String
path = path + "/video.mov"
let url = URL.init(filePath: path)
try data.write(to: url)
let player = AVPlayer(url: url)
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.backgroundColor = NSColor.black.cgColor
playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspect
self.view.layer?.sublayers?
.filter { $0 is AVPlayerLayer }
.forEach { $0.removeFromSuperlayer() }
self.view.layer?.insertSublayer(playerLayer, at: 0)
playerLayer.magnificationFilter = .nearest
playerLayer.player?.play()
} catch {
//
}
self.videoUrl?.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
}
}
}
override var representedObject: Any? {
didSet {
// Update the view, if already loaded.
}
}
}