How to get NSData of video in elcImagePickerController?

Question

I want to upload video to server... and am using elcImagePickerController to select multiple/single video

But in

 - (void)elcImagePickerController:(ELCImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSArray *)info

method am not getting UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL to get data..

so how to get video data to send it to server?

This is my code

    if ([dict objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage]){
            UIImage* image=[dict objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

            [images addObject:image];

            NSURL *imagePath = [dict objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL];
            NSString *imageName = [imagePath lastPathComponent];
            [imgNames addObject:imageName];
            UIImageView *imageview = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
            [imageview setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
            imageview.frame = workingFrame;

            [_scrollView addSubview:imageview];

            workingFrame.origin.x = workingFrame.origin.x + workingFrame.size.width;
        }

[this post may help!!](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9931779/use-elcimagepickercontroller-to-pick-video) — Ketan Parmar, Sep 08 '16 at 10:49
no :( am able to display inly video/images but unable to get NSData of video... — Akshay Ambekar, Sep 08 '16 at 11:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33189012/swift2-how-to-convert-video-in-gallary-to-nsdata-in-swift-2 — Larme, Sep 08 '16 at 11:16
am not getting UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL in didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo... instead am getting UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL... @Larme — Akshay Ambekar, Sep 08 '16 at 11:19
I suggest to use native `UIImagePickerController`. It have sufficient methods available to achieve any kind of task and are easy and simple to implement. No need to use third party for media picking!! — Ketan Parmar, Sep 08 '16 at 12:27
But I want to select multiple videos and images... is it possible in native UIImagePickerController? @ketan — Akshay Ambekar, Sep 08 '16 at 12:34
ohh! Actually everything can be achieved by native methods or apis because thirdparty libraries itself use native methods. If you want to select multiple media then it can be achieved by `AssetsLibrary` and it is very long process so in this case it is better to use thirdparty. :) So find the way with `ELCImagePickerController`. You can ask in github also! — Ketan Parmar, Sep 08 '16 at 12:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Finally got solution from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/10799693/6011616

ALAssetsLibrary *assetLibrary=[[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
[assetLibrary assetForURL:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink] resultBlock:^(ALAsset *asset) {
ALAssetRepresentation *rep = [asset defaultRepresentation];
Byte *buffer = (Byte*)malloc(rep.size);
NSUInteger buffered = [rep getBytes:buffer fromOffset:0.0 length:rep.size error:nil];

NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytesNoCopy:buffer length:buffered freeWhenDone:YES]; 
NSLog(@"%@",data); //this is what I was expecting

How to get NSData of video in elcImagePickerController?

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