avplayer

How to detect when AVPlayer video ends playing?

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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

How to reduce iOS AVPlayer start delay

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For iOS 10.x and greater to reduce AVPlayer start delay I set: avplayer.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false; and that seemed to fix it for me. This could have other consequences, but I haven’t hit those yet. I got the idea for it from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50598525/9620547

Looping a video with AVFoundation AVPlayer?

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You can get a Notification when the player ends. Check AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification When setting up the player: ObjC avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(playerItemDidReachEnd:) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:[avPlayer currentItem]]; this will prevent the player to pause at the end. in the notification: – (void)playerItemDidReachEnd:(NSNotification *)notification { AVPlayerItem *p = [notification object]; [p seekToTime:kCMTimeZero]; } this will rewind … Read more

capturing self strongly in this block is likely to lead to a retain cycle

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The capture of self here is coming in with your implicit property access of self.timerDisp – you can’t refer to self or properties on self from within a block that will be strongly retained by self. You can get around this by creating a weak reference to self before accessing timerDisp inside your block: __weak … Read more