Get Videos

[calls9-mattwyld]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There doesn't appear to be a way yet to get video's in capacitor. There is the getPhoto() method in the capacitor camera plugin but no getVideo(). Even if it just returns a file URL, this would be super useful.

Describe the solution you'd like
A getVideos() method that opens the OS Videos to be able to select a video and it return the video in say blob format or the file location

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have used to Cordova camera plugin to achieve this however there are some issues when building it in android.

Additional context
I can provide more details upon request, hopefully the above makes sense.

[imhoffd]

I think this would make more sense in the Camera plugin. The Media plugin organizes media into albums, but doesn't capture photos/videos. This is functionality that's just missing from our Camera plugin. I added an issue to track it: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#78

cc @stewwan

[realadamsmith]

Unless WebRTC or MediaRecorder API fulfill this need across iOS and Android, this is a pretty necessary feature.

Will update once iOS 15.1 beta 4 is tested for MediaRecorder API to work on iOS

[stewones]

as stated by @imhoffd, this functionality doesn't make sense in here, this plugin only aims to manipulate medias on user's device whereas we aren't able to do with official capacitor packages. ie filesystem