IOS 8 Time Lapse Functionality - objective-c

Question

I am trying to add Time Lapse Feature on my IOS Application. Can anybody Help me by giving resource/ How to implement this? I want to capture video from my application using Time Lapse mode which is on IOS8 new feature. I didnt Find any resources for Developer. If you can it will be great for my self

Answer 1

You could use the AVFoundation functionality to combine photos into a video. You can do this using AVAssetWriter
AVAssetWriter *videoWriter = [[AVAssetWriter alloc] initWithURL:
[NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoOutputPath] fileType:AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie
error:&error];
NSParameterAssert(videoWriter);
NSDictionary *videoSettings = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
AVVideoCodecH264, AVVideoCodecKey,
[NSNumber numberWithInt:imageSize.width], AVVideoWidthKey,
[NSNumber numberWithInt:imageSize.height], AVVideoHeightKey,
nil];
AVAssetWriterInput* videoWriterInput = [AVAssetWriterInput
assetWriterInputWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo
outputSettings:videoSettings];
AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor *adaptor = [AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor
assetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptorWithAssetWriterInput:videoWriterInput
sourcePixelBufferAttributes:nil];
NSParameterAssert(videoWriterInput);
NSParameterAssert([videoWriter canAddInput:videoWriterInput]);
videoWriterInput.expectsMediaDataInRealTime = YES;
[videoWriter addInput:videoWriterInput];
//Start a session:
[videoWriter startWriting];
[videoWriter startSessionAtSourceTime:kCMTimeZero];
CVPixelBufferRef buffer = NULL;
//convert uiimage to CGImage.
int frameCount = 0;
double numberOfSecondsPerFrame = 2;
double frameDuration = fps * numberOfSecondsPerFrame;
And then append the images(Buffers) together
for(UIImage * img in imageArray)
{
progress.completedUnitCount++;
buffer = [self pixelBufferFromCGImage:[img CGImage] ImageSize:imageSize];
BOOL append_ok = NO;
int j = 0;
while (!append_ok && j < 30) {
if (adaptor.assetWriterInput.readyForMoreMediaData) {
//print out status:
NSLog(#"Processing video frame (%d,%lu)",frameCount,(unsigned long)[imageArray count]);
CMTime frameTime = CMTimeMake(frameCount*frameDuration,(int32_t) fps);
append_ok = [adaptor appendPixelBuffer:buffer withPresentationTime:frameTime];
if(!append_ok){
NSError *error = videoWriter.error;
if(error!=nil) {
NSLog(#"Unresolved error %#,%#.", error, [error userInfo]);
}
}
}
else {
printf("adaptor not ready %d, %d\n", frameCount, j);
[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:0.1];
}
j++;
}
if (!append_ok) {
printf("error appending image %d times %d\n, with error.", frameCount, j);
}
frameCount++;
}
[videoWriterInput markAsFinished];
[videoWriter finishWritingWithCompletionHandler:^{}];
Here is the buffer code
- (CVPixelBufferRef) pixelBufferFromCGImage: (CGImageRef) image ImageSize:(CGSize)size {
NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], kCVPixelBufferCGImageCompatibilityKey,
[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], kCVPixelBufferCGBitmapContextCompatibilityKey,
nil];
CVPixelBufferRef pxbuffer = NULL;
CVReturn status = CVPixelBufferCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault,
size.width,
size.height,
kCVPixelFormatType_32ARGB,
(__bridge CFDictionaryRef) options,
&pxbuffer);
if (status != kCVReturnSuccess){
NSLog(#"Failed to create pixel buffer");
}
CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(pxbuffer, 0);
void *pxdata = CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddress(pxbuffer);
CGColorSpaceRef rgbColorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(pxdata, size.width,
size.height, 8, 4*size.width, rgbColorSpace,
kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);
//kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipFirst);
CGContextConcatCTM(context, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(0));
CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, CGImageGetWidth(image),
CGImageGetHeight(image)), image);
CGColorSpaceRelease(rgbColorSpace);
CGContextRelease(context);
CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress(pxbuffer, 0);
return pxbuffer;
}