Video doesn't work with new cameraRoll uri path with prefix "ph://" on iOS RN 0.59.5

Current behavior

video playback doesn’t work with RN 0.59.5 with new cameraRoll URI format using prefix “ph://” on iOS

Reproduction steps

get videos from cameraRoll on iOS and use the URI path with prefix “ph://”

Expected behavior

Video should play

Platform

Which player are you experiencing the problem on: iOS

Details: With RN 0.58.6 cameraRoll returned videos in this format for example:

{ node: 
   { timestamp: 1515357324,
     location: 
      { altitude: 0,
        heading: -1,
        speed: -1 },
     group_name: 'Camera Roll',
     type: 'ALAssetTypeVideo',
     image: 
      { width: 720,
        height: 1280,
        isStored: true,
        filename: 'IMG_0013.mp4',
        uri: 'assets-library://asset/asset.mp4?id=D34D1148-2CC7-4AE9-BB2E-67ACBCB60A10&ext=mp4',
        playableDuration: 10 } } }

Passing the ‘asset-library’ URI to react-native-video v4.4.0 worked.

However in React Native v0.59.x the cameraRoll API returns videos in the format:

 node: 
   { timestamp: 1554232151,
     type: 'video',
     group_name: 'Camera Roll',
     location: {},
     image: 
      { width: 1080,
        uri: 'ph://D916EEFD-317B-403D-B589-B3ED9B17E784/L0/001',
        height: 1920,
        isStored: true,
        playableDuration: 4.365 } } }

react-native-video does not work with the new URI format.

[talal7860]

This is what I did to get it working

  const appleId = image.uri.substring(5, 41);
  const uri = `assets-library://asset/asset.${ext}?id=${appleId}&ext=${ext}`;`

This should get it working until react-native-video adds a fix

[cnickless]

Converting assets from PH:// to assets-library:// seems to work if the file is local, but in instances where you fetch ‘All’ from CameraRoll you can at times find a video that is stored on iCloud. Trying to load these videos will not load (onLoad) and does not throw an error (onError).

I’m setting up a timeout to notify users if the file does not load right away (not local file) but has anyone uncovered a way to load iCloud assets into react-native-video?