swifturlswiftuiavplayeritem

URL to local Bundle.main always returns nil

Overview

I’m doing a simple singing game for kids. The game just plays a video and shows three options. I was updating the videos, so I deleted it from the Assets.xcassets then added the new ones.

The problem

Now I’m getting this error:

Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value: file /Volumes/Documentos/Trabajo/Codigo proyectos/Currents/HANDSUP/diloEnSenas/SingsCategoryView.swift, line 69
2020-05-12 14:03:46.769427-0500 HandsUP[12221:549710] Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value: file /Volumes/Documentos/Trabajo/Codigo proyectos/Currents/HANDSUP/diloEnSenas/SingsCategoryView.swift, line 69

This is the code where I have the problem 

struct video: View {
    var url: String

    var body: some View{
        VideoPlayerView(playerQueve: self.changeVideo(file: self.url))
    }

    func changeVideo(file: String) -> AVQueuePlayer {

        //let fileURL = file
        //let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: fileURL , withExtension: "mp4")

        let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "color_1" , withExtension: "mp4")

        let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: url!)

        //set video

        let player = AVQueuePlayer(playerItem: playerItem)

        return player
    }
}

It was working fine before. So my first thought was that I’m not adding the files in the right way, but I checked it again and the buttons that are in the same folder as the videos are showing correctly.

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Like you can see in the last image the button is showing well and the button image is in the same folder

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enter image description here Second thing I checked was the build phase but all files are in the right folder.

Question

Solution

  • If you add your video files to your main bundle, by dragging and drop it and copy items if needed, you can access them directly like this:

    let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Test" , withExtension: "mov")

    If you want to access your video directly from the Asset, you can get it as NSObject with NSDataAsset. 

    let dataVideo : NSObject = NSDataAsset(name: "MyVideo")!

    Edit:

    If you add your Video/ Images to your MainBundle, you can see them when showing package content of your app. That's where the URL is pointing to. With asset you do not get a URL by stock. What I am doing is, I get the content of the Asset as Data, copy that into the Documents folder of my application and store it there. Then you get a URL to that directory aswell. (This should be the optimal solution for your case, I would just copy the videos to your Bundle directly)