I'm using requestImageDataForAsset to detect if a video PHAsset is completely downloaded from iCloud.
I've avoided using the 'PHImageResultIsInCloudKey' from the requestImageDataForAsset resultHandler 'info' param, since it was/is not reliable( return 1 although the movie was already downloaded, reference).
I've also detected that once the video PHAsset was on the device the 'PHImageFileURLKey' returns with a file url with a *.MOV suffix, via the 'info' param.
This worked for iOS8-9.2.1, but seems to be broken on iOS9.3b3 ,(didn't check the previous betas)
Now for any movie file which was captured on the device, PHImageFileURLKey is pointing to a file with '*.JPG' suffix (probably the movie thumb)
Note: I've tried to use the other video api's:
- requestPlayerItemForVideo
- requestExportSessionForVideo
- requestAVAssetForVideo
However they have a performance penalty which was not acceptable. requestImageDataForAsset is much faster.
Is that a bug that apple fixed in requestImageDataForAsset, which was not supposed to return PHImageFileURLKey to a movie, or a bug in iOS9.3b3 which now returns a path to an image(JPG)?