See Also: AVAsset Members
An MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVAsset represents one or more media assets. These are held in its AVAsset.Tracks property. Additionally, MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVAssets include metadata, track grouping, and preferences about the media.
Because media assets such as movies are large, instantiating an MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVAsset will not automatically load the file. Properties are loaded when they are queried or via explicit calls to AVAsset.LoadValuesTaskAsync or AVAsset.LoadValuesAsynchronously.
During playback, the current presentation state of an MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVAsset is represented by an MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVPlayerItem object, and the playback is controlled by a MonoTouch.AVFoundation.AVPlayer: