Convert AVPlayerItem to NSData

Question

I am trying to achieve a simple task like converting a UIImage to NSData, for AVPlayerItem that is returned to me when I select a video from the PHImageManager. What might be an equivalent of the UIImagePNGRepresentation to convert video in data:

PHVideoRequestOptions *videoRequestOptions = [[PHVideoRequestOptions alloc] init];
videoRequestOptions.deliveryMode = PHVideoRequestOptionsDeliveryModeAutomatic;
videoRequestOptions.version = PHVideoRequestOptionsVersionOriginal;

[[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestPlayerItemForVideo:asset options:videoRequestOptions resultHandler:^(AVPlayerItem *item, NSDictionary *info)
            {
                //?
            }];

Whereas the UIImage goes like this:

[[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestImageForAsset:asset targetSize:PHImageManagerMaximumSize contentMode:PHImageContentModeAspectFit options:imageRequestOptions resultHandler:^(UIImage *result, NSDictionary *info)
{
     NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithData:UIImagePNGRepresentation(result)]; //<==THIS
}

Answer 1

The solution is to get the URL from the AVPlayerItem asset, then create NSData from that URL:

PHAsset *asset = ...
PHVideoRequestOptions *options = [[PHVideoRequestOptions alloc] init];
[[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestPlayerItemForVideo:asset options:options resultHandler:^(AVPlayerItem * _Nullable playerItem, NSDictionary * _Nullable info) {
                NSURL *fileURL = [(AVURLAsset *)playerItem.asset URL];
                NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:fileURL];
                NSLog(@"tmpData Size: %lu",tmpData.length);
}];

and another way is to use 'requestAVAssetForVideo:asset' ....

PHFetchOptions *fetchOption = [[PHFetchOptions alloc]init];
if ([fetchOption respondsToSelector:@selector(setFetchLimit:)]) {
    [fetchOption setFetchLimit:1];
}
PHAsset *asset = [PHAsset fetchAssetsWithLocalIdentifiers:@[@"<Video-localIdentifier>"] options:fetchOption].firstObject;
PHVideoRequestOptions *options = [[PHVideoRequestOptions alloc]init];
options.version = PHVideoRequestOptionsVersionOriginal;
options.deliveryMode = PHVideoRequestOptionsDeliveryModeAutomatic;

[[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestAVAssetForVideo:asset
                                                options:options
                                          resultHandler:
 ^(AVAsset *asset, AVAudioMix *audioMix, NSDictionary *info) {
     AVURLAsset *urlAsset = (AVURLAsset *)asset;
     NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:urlAsset.URL];

     if (videoData) {
         NSLog(@"videoData Size: %lu", videoData.length);
     }

 }];