iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max compression issues

[paulsizer]

Current behavior

I seem to be having issues compressing videos recorded on iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max devices that are in the high efficiency setting for capturing video. This videos are in a .mov video file.

If I record a video on my iPhone 14 Pro the video compresses as normal but when testing with a video recorded on the 16 Pro models and trying to compress it results in the exact same file being returned.

 LOG  video_uri file:///Users/paul/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/E1C94F32-6F84-4F57-81F3-A319169E3518/data/Containers/Data/Application/ECA070E0-4A5D-4BFA-8417-E22FBBEFFBBE/Library/Caches/ImagePicker/D3444CB1-7380-424B-ACBB-B55682266498.mov
 LOG  size 73619152
 LOG  compressedVideo file:///Users/paul/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/E1C94F32-6F84-4F57-81F3-A319169E3518/data/Containers/Data/Application/ECA070E0-4A5D-4BFA-8417-E22FBBEFFBBE/Documents/D3444CB1-7380-424B-ACBB-B55682266498.mov
 LOG  compressedSize 73619152

Expected behavior

The file compresses to a MP4 file

Platform

• iOS

React Native Version

0.74.1

React Native Compressor Version

1.9.0

Reproducible Steps And Demo

import { Video } from 'react-native-compressor';
import * as FileSystem from 'expo-file-system';

export const compressVideo = async (video_uri, onProgress) => {
  const uriParts = video_uri.split('/');
  const filename = uriParts[uriParts.length - 1];

  const newUri = `${FileSystem.documentDirectory}${filename}`;
  await FileSystem.copyAsync({
    from: video_uri,
    to: newUri,
  });
  const { size } = await FileSystem.getInfoAsync(video_uri);
  console.log('video_uri', video_uri);
  console.log('size', size);

  const compressedVideo = await Video.compress(
    newUri,
    { compressionMethod: 'manual',
      progressDivider: 10,
      minimumFileSizeForCompress: 1,
      maxFileSizeForCompress: 100,
      bitrateMultiplier: 0.8,
      compressQuality: 'medium', },
    (progress) => {
      const progressPercentage = parseInt(progress * 100);
      onProgress(progressPercentage);
    }
  );

  const { size: compressedSize } = await FileSystem.getInfoAsync(compressedVideo);
  console.log('compressedVideo', compressedVideo);
  console.log('compressedSize', compressedSize);


  return compressedVideo;
};

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[mbiang]

I too am seeing this bug on iOS devices. The compressor (version 1.9.0) is returning the original uncompressed URL.

Here is the code I am using:

compressorResult = await VideoCompressor.compress(
  uri,
  { compressionMethod: 'auto' },
  progress => {
    if (!isExpoGo && SHOW_PROGRESS) {
      this.setState({ currentProgress: progress });
    }
  },
);

[paulsizer]

Any help with this and how to go about fixing this? Seems to be mostly happening with iPhone 16 users on my end.

[paulsizer]

@numandev1 Any info on this?

[cmlad]

Same issue here, I get a few progress updates, up to like 0.008, and then it returns the original URI no matter what params I use. It doesn't matter if I use HEVC or H264. Using 16 Pro Max.

With an XS Pro Max things work.