@cvp Thanks for the reply. I’m a bit out of my depth trying to solve this. I haven’t used ctypes before and can’t work out how to call the swift “image(at:)“ function as you’ve suggested.

@JonB

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

Yea I did. It has a similar result with a transparent view and not able to see any images. I’ve started going through your code line by line but I’ve only just starting to use objc_util and there are other things you are doing that are new to me.

My concern is that it isn’t possible anymore and I’m going down the wrong path.

I'd like to be able to get a video from the photos module or a local .mov file and show a given frame in the console.

There seems to be 2 ways to do this but neither is working for me yet.

I tried running this:

https://github.com/jsbain/objc_hacks/blob/master/getframes.py

But the resulting view is just a transparent overlay.

It seems to me that this returns a 'NoneType' object.

cgimage_obj=generator.copyCGImageAtTime_actualTime_error_(t,byref(tactual),None,restype=c_void_p,argtypes=[CMTime,POINTER(CMTime),POINTER(c_void_p)])

type(cgimage_obj)
<class 'NoneType'>

It also looks like the photos module has a .seek function I am unable to get that to show me anything other than frame 1 using get_image().

Are there any working examples of this?

Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks @cvp I added the root of my icloud to external files as you sugeated and voila. I dont understand how this stopped working but I'm happy to have a simple solution.

import os

print(os.getcwd()) 

Running that code in a file is giving me a permission error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/com LoudDocs/_test/test_function.py", Line 3, in <module> print (os.getcwd())
PermissionError: [Errno 3] Operation not permitted

I can run the same code/file on my iphone and it works. how have i changed ios permissions on my iPad.