UPDATE IOS 11.2 with Swift 4: Now if you are using AVPlayer to play music files you should also configure MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default() to show now playing info on the lock screen. Below code will show now playing controls on the screen but it won’t be able to respond any commands. If you also want to controls … Read more
Let’s start with really good news – iOS 10 and up – gives this out of the box. No more need for hacks soon. More details can be found in the following WWDC16 session about whats new in HTTP Live Streaming: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/504/ Now back to the current state of things – iOS 9 and lower: … Read more
UPDATE: I ended up making my own controls for better customization. It’s more difficult but worth the time. Please read Apple’s sample code for reference. It’s about implementing PiP but also about making custom controls: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/samplecode/AVFoundationPiPPlayer/Introduction/Intro.html UPDATE: When tapped, AVPlayerViewController only fires touchesBegan event, and not touchesEnded event. But it’s enough to show the controls. … Read more
Something like this works: func play(url: NSURL) { let item = AVPlayerItem(URL: url) NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: “playerDidFinishPlaying:”, name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: item) let player = AVPlayer(playerItem: item) player.play() } func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification) { // Your code here } Don’t forget to remove the observer when you’re done (or in deinit)!
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
I had similar issue with mp4 file stored on device which got fixed by prepending “file://” to the file path guard let strPath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: “demo”, ofType: “mp4”), let url = URL(string: “file://\(strPath)”) else { print(“Umm, looks like an invalid URL!”) return } Inspired by this post
The solution is: Don’t use MPMoviePlayerController, sorry. Refactor to use AVPlayerViewController instead. This is a more modern API; the one you are using has been deprecated so it is not shocking that it has a strange mysterious crash on a newer version of iOS.
I am just working on this, and so far have the following: – (NSTimeInterval) availableDuration; { NSArray *loadedTimeRanges = [[self.player currentItem] loadedTimeRanges]; CMTimeRange timeRange = [[loadedTimeRanges objectAtIndex:0] CMTimeRangeValue]; Float64 startSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.start); Float64 durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.duration); NSTimeInterval result = startSeconds + durationSeconds; return result; }
Why do you say that “rate” is not KVO complaint? It works for me. Here is what I did: – (void)viewDidLoad { … [self.player addObserver:self forKeyPath:@”rate” options:0 context:nil]; } And then: – (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context { if ([keyPath isEqualToString:@”rate”]) { if ([self.player rate]) { [self changeToPause]; // This changes the button … Read more
int32_t timeScale = self.player.currentItem.asset.duration.timescale; CMTime time = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(77.000000, timeScale); [self.player seekToTime:time toleranceBefore:kCMTimeZero toleranceAfter:kCMTimeZero]; I had a problem with ‘seekToTime’. I solved my problem with this code. ‘timescale’ is trick for this problem. Swift version: let playerTimescale = self.player.currentItem?.asset.duration.timescale ?? 1 let time = CMTime(seconds: 77.000000, preferredTimescale: playerTimescale) self.player.seek(to: time, toleranceBefore: kCMTimeZero, toleranceAfter: kCMTimeZero) { (finished) … Read more