Use avfoundation to recrod video and save it to photo gallery ~ Swift5

Question

My swift code below uses avfoundation to take a photo and place it on the imageview all in one class. I want to uses this code as a base and just when the uses calls func startVideo its recording and then when the user calls saveVideo func then it stops the recording and saves it into the imageivew.

import UIKit
import AVFoundation

class ViewController: UIViewController {

var captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
var backCamera: AVCaptureDevice?
var frontCamera: AVCaptureDevice?
var currentCamera: AVCaptureDevice?
var photoOutput: AVCapturePhotoOutput?

var cameraPreviewLayer: AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer?
var image: UIImage?

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    setupCaptureSession()
    setupDevice()
    setupInputOutput()
    setupPreviewLayer()
    startRunningCaptureSession()

    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

func setupCaptureSession () {
    captureSession.sessionPreset = AVCaptureSession.Preset.photo
}

 func setupDevice() {
    let deviceDiscoverySession = AVCaptureDevice.DiscoverySession(deviceTypes: [AVCaptureDevice.DeviceType.builtInWideAngleCamera], mediaType: AVMediaType.video, position: AVCaptureDevice.Position.unspecified)

    let devices = deviceDiscoverySession.devices

    for device in devices {
        if device.position == AVCaptureDevice.Position.back {
            backCamera = device
        } else if device.position == AVCaptureDevice.Position.front {
            frontCamera = device

        }
    }

    currentCamera = backCamera


}

func setupInputOutput() {
    do {
        let captureDeviceInput = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: currentCamera!)
        captureSession.addInput(captureDeviceInput)
        photoOutput = AVCapturePhotoOutput()
        photoOutput?.setPreparedPhotoSettingsArray([AVCapturePhotoSettings(format: [AVVideoCodecKey: AVVideoCodecType.jpeg])], completionHandler: nil)

        captureSession.addOutput(photoOutput!)

    } catch {
        print(error)
    }


}

func setupPreviewLayer () {

    cameraPreviewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
    cameraPreviewLayer?.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspectFill
    cameraPreviewLayer?.connection?.videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation.portrait
    cameraPreviewLayer?.frame = self.view.frame
    self.view.layer.insertSublayer(cameraPreviewLayer!, at: 0)





}
func startRunningCaptureSession () {
    captureSession.startRunning()
}





@IBAction func startVideo(_ sender: Any) {

}


    @IBOutlet weak var photo: UIImageView!




    @IBAction func saveVideo(_ sender: Any) {


    }}

     extension ViewController: AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate {
 func photoOutput(_ output: AVCapturePhotoOutput, didFinishProcessingPhoto photo: AVCapturePhoto, error: Error?) {
    //contains the photo variable
    if let imageData = photo.fileDataRepresentation() {
        print(imageData)
        image = UIImage(data: imageData)



    }

}}

Answer 1

You can save record your video to file by creating and adding an AVCaptureMovieFileOutput to your capture session, and making your ViewController conform to the AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate.

This example records 5 seconds of video to a file called "output.mov" in the app's Documents directory.

class ViewController: UIViewController, AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate {

    var captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
    var sessionOutput = AVCaptureStillImageOutput()
    var movieOutput = AVCaptureMovieFileOutput()
    var previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer()

    @IBOutlet var cameraView: UIView!

    override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
        self.cameraView = self.view

        let devices = AVCaptureDevice.devicesWithMediaType(AVMediaTypeVideo)
        for device in devices {
            if device.position == AVCaptureDevicePosition.Front{


                do{

                    let input = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: device as! AVCaptureDevice)

                    if captureSession.canAddInput(input){

                        captureSession.addInput(input)
                        sessionOutput.outputSettings = [AVVideoCodecKey : AVVideoCodecJPEG]

                        if captureSession.canAddOutput(sessionOutput){

                            captureSession.addOutput(sessionOutput)

                            previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
                            previewLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
                            previewLayer.connection.videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation.Portrait
                            cameraView.layer.addSublayer(previewLayer)

                            previewLayer.position = CGPoint(x: self.cameraView.frame.width / 2, y: self.cameraView.frame.height / 2)
                            previewLayer.bounds = cameraView.frame


                        }

                        captureSession.addOutput(movieOutput)

                        captureSession.startRunning()

                        let paths = NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)
                        let fileUrl = paths[0].URLByAppendingPathComponent("output.mov")
                        try? NSFileManager.defaultManager().removeItemAtURL(fileUrl)
                        movieOutput.startRecordingToOutputFileURL(fileUrl, recordingDelegate: self)

                        let delayTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(5 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)))
                        dispatch_after(delayTime, dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
                            print("stopping")
                            self.movieOutput.stopRecording()
                        }
                    }

                }
                catch{

                    print("Error")
                }

            }
        }

    }

    func captureOutput(captureOutput: AVCaptureFileOutput!, didFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL outputFileURL: NSURL!, fromConnections connections: [AnyObject]!, error: NSError!) {
        print("FINISHED \(error)")
        // save video to camera roll
        if error == nil {
            UISaveVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum(outputFileURL.path!, nil, nil, nil)
        }
    }

}