I'm using Xamarin with Visual Studio + the Media Plugin by Media Plugin by James Montemagno.
I'm using it to access the native device gallery, using PickVideoAsync() to choose/pick a video.
var file = await CrossMedia.Current.PickVideoAsync();
I want to get the full path of the video (var file) I'm picking.
However, the resulting file seems to be a temporary (and compressed) version of the actual file. Therefore the path this file is referring to is not the original file path.
My Results:
file.Path: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/9436142C-F8A1-43BF-ADE9-AD2DD676FC65/Documents/temp/trim.33800B19-DCDE-4629-896F-B34F5CDFB768.MOV
file.AlbumPath: assets-library://asset/asset.mov?id=8938D860-B84F-4878-9EA2-E91CBF9E9157&ext=mov
file.Path = temporary filepath
file.AlbumPath = seems to be a unique "path" that refers to the file no matter what changes are applied to the gallery.
Sadly, this file seems to be an URI/URL.
How to get the actual path, or at least the actual file name?
Hint: var file is from type something like Media.Plugin.Abstractions.MediaFile as far as I remember, so it's not an actual .NET type
