How to detect if a video file was recorded in portrait orientation, or landscape in iOS

Question

I am using AlAssetsGroup enumerateAssetsAtIndexes to list the assets in the Photos (Camera) app. For a given video asset I want to determine whether it was shot

Answer 1

In my use case I only needed to know if a video is in portrait or not (landscape).

guard let videoTrack = AVAsset(url: videoURL).tracks(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo).first else {
    return ...
}

let transformedVideoSize = videoTrack.naturalSize.applying(videoTrack.preferredTransform)
let videoIsPortrait = abs(transformedVideoSize.width) < abs(transformedVideoSize.height)

This has been tested with both front and rear cameras for all orientation possibilities.