Build your AVPlayerItem in a background queue as much as possible (some operations you have to do on the main thread, but you can do setup operations and waiting for video properties to load on background queues – read the docs very carefully). This involves voodoo dances with KVO and is really not fun. The … Read more
You can tell it’s playing using: AVPlayer *player = … if ((player.rate != 0) && (player.error == nil)) { // player is playing } Swift 3 extension: extension AVPlayer { var isPlaying: Bool { return rate != 0 && error == nil } }
Ok, I’ve looked over this problem again and written some code to check out AVQueuePlayer. jollyCocoa’s answer pointed me in the right direction by suggesting to observe the status property on AVPlayerItem. However the documentation doesn’t seem to point out that this property (and it’s AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay value in particular) might be related to buffering. However … Read more
Ok everyone, I have the answer to this straight from Apple. I used one of my developer TSI lifelines to ask the question, and I’ll summarize the response. There is a limit on the number of concurrent video players that AVFoundation will allow. It is due to the limitations of iOS hardware. The limit for … Read more
here I add the points , you need to customize based on your need. Step-1 initially hide your AVPlayer controls, YourAVPlayerViewController.showsPlaybackControls = false Step-2 create the structure like one label for current Duration, One label for overall Duration, one UIbutton for pause and play your current player and one UISlider for seek The video. step-3 … Read more
I know you don’t want to use the AVAssetImageGenerator but I’ve also researched this extensively and I believe the only solution currently is using the AVAssetImageGenerator. It’s not that difficult as you say to get the right coordinate because you should be able to get the current time of your player. In my App the … Read more
To get the AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification your object needs to be an AVPlayerItem. To do so, just use the .currentItem property on your AVPlayer Now you will get a notification once the video ends! See my example: let videoPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url) NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: “playerDidFinishPlaying:”, name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: videoPlayer.currentItem) func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification) { print(“Video Finished”) } Swift … Read more
You can use AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey of AVURLAsset‘s init option to modify request headers. For example: NSMutableDictionary * headers = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; [headers setObject:@”Your UA” forKey:@”User-Agent”]; AVURLAsset * asset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:URL options:@{@”AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey” : headers}]; AVPlayerItem * item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset]; self.player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:item]; Note: I found this key in sources of WebKit, but this … Read more
You are playing a remote file. It may take some time for the AVPlayer to buffer enough data and be ready to play the file (see AV Foundation Programming Guide) But you don’t seem to wait for the player to be ready before tapping the play button. What I would to is disable this button … Read more
Yes, the AVPlayer class does not have a delegate protocol like the AVAudioPlayer. You need to subscribe to notifications on an AVPlayerItem. You can create an AVPlayerItem using the same URL that you would otherwise pass to -initWithURL: on AVPlayer. -(void)startPlaybackForItemWithURL:(NSURL*)url { // First create an AVPlayerItem AVPlayerItem* playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:url]; // Subscribe to … Read more