how can I access iphone videos programitaclly

Question

suppose i load videos to an iPhone using iTunes. I want to write an app that will allow the selection of videos, and the playing of them.

I am familiar with the MPMoviePlayerController class. but i only played video that i loaded onside my app.

Answer 1

Apple doesn't let you access the movies of the iPod application. You can only access audio files.

From the docs

Use it to find and play user-installed audio-based media items synced from a user’s iTunes library. iPod library access is read-only.

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