Camera Plugin feeds Video Editor - file path hell

@killerchip wrote:

Hello

I'm getting really frustrated with this... I'm trying to feed a file to Video Editor plugin which was picked from the local storage with Camera plugin, but the path is not recognized and getting error "File Protocol error"

In more details:

I chose Camera plugin with configuration to pick Video (only) files from my local device.
The Camera plugin spits out a video file path from library like

/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/Vid_xxxxx.mp4

Now when I feed this URL to Video Editor's .getVideoInfo() member method I get an error "malformedURLException: Protocol not found".

On the same page I use Media Capture plugin to record a video that then is feeded to Video Editor plugin to transcode it and modify it. This works perfectly.
I see that Media Capture plugin spits out a URL path like

file:///data/user/0/com.app.my/cache/Capture.avi

So obviously this URL is fine for Video Editor.

And I don't know what kind of hell I'm going to get into when trying on iOS.

Question 1: Do you think I'm using the correct approach here (Camera plugin) to pick a video file from local storage?

Question 2: Is there a way to convert the "/storage/..." path to "file:///...." path?

Any help or guidance is highly appreciated.

Regards
Costas

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