Is it possible to make AVURLAsset work without a file extension?

let mimeType = "video/mp4; codecs=\"avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2\""
let asset = AVURLAsset(url: videoURL!, options:["AVURLAssetOutOfBandMIMETypeKey": mimeType])
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset)
avPlayer = AVPlayer(playerItem: playerItem)
self.avPlayerViewConroller?.player = avPlayer
playerItem.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "status", options: NSKeyValueObservingOptions(), context: nil)
override func observeValue(forKeyPath keyPath: String?, of object: Any?, change: [NSKeyValueChangeKey : Any]?, context: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?)
{
        if(avPlayer?.currentItem?.status == AVPlayerItemStatus.readyToPlay)
        {
            avPlayer?.play()
        }
}

Swift answer:

let filePath = ###YOU SET THIS###
let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
let documentsURL = fileManager.URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .AllDomainsMask).last!
let tmpURL = documentsURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("tmp.caf")
_ = try? fileManager.removeItemAtURL(tmpURL)
_ = try? fileManager.linkItemAtURL(fileURL, toURL: tmpURL)

Complete answer Obj-C:

NSString *filePath = ###YOU SET THIS###
NSFileManager *dfm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSArray *documentPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *tmpPath = [[documentPaths lastObject] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"tmp.caf"];
[dfm removeItemAtPath:tmpPath error:nil];
[dfm linkItemAtPath:filePath toPath:tmpPath error:nil];

And now AVURLAsset will work with tmpPath.

In the end I temporarily create a hardlink to the file and give the correct extension to the hardlink. It’s a hack though, I’d like to see a better solution. I’ve submitted a bug report against AVURLAsset, hopefully Apple could add the feature to read the file format information from the options dictionary.