I am trying to create a simple video player using iOS 13 and SWIFT 5. Below you will see my few lines of code but when I run the app all I see is a blank screen. I hear the video but it is not until I rotate the screen that I even see a section of the video. In my project the "video" appears to be just a photo. The video is not even moving it is just the still image you see in the example below. I am new to iOS/SWIFT but this is the oddest problem I have encountered so far. What am I doing wrong?
ViewController:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
playVideo()
}
func playVideo(){
let videoURL = URL(string: "https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/media/bbb-360p.mp4")
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspect
self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player.play()
}
override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
playerLayer.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: size.width, height: size.height)
}
}
Give the frame for the playerLayer in playVideo method like this:
playerLayer.frame = view.bounds
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I have an AVPlayer and AVPlayerLayer embedded in a simple UIView. This plays the movie but adjusting playerLayer.videoGravity only effects the movies relative height:
.resizeAspect fills all the way to side of the videoview UIView and crops the height
.resizeAspectFill looks like a zoomed in version of the stretched .resizeAspect
var player = AVPlayer()
#IBOutlet weak var videoview: UIView!
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
player = AVPlayer(url: url)
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.setAffineTransform(CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: CGFloat((-90 * Double.pi)/180)))
playerLayer.frame = videoview.bounds
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspect
videoview.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player.play()
}
The issue here was with playerLayer.setAffineTransform(CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: CGFloat((-90 * Double.pi)/180))) and the video/image size. The wrong height/width were used previously (and needed to be transposed). This resolved the issue.
The code I was using to embed a local video in a UIView isn't working on IOS 12. The audio is playing but I get a black screen.
from apple developer site:
Do not subclass AVPlayerViewController. Overriding this class’s methods is unsupported and results in undefined behavior.
the code works fine on IOS 11, any idea what do I need to change in the code?
thanks
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var avPlayer: AVPlayer!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let filepath: String? = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "qidong", ofType: "mp4")
let fileURL = URL.init(fileURLWithPath: filepath!)
avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: fileURL)
let avPlayerController = AVPlayerViewController()
avPlayerController.player = avPlayer
avPlayerController.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.height)
avPlayerController.showsPlaybackControls = false
avPlayerController.player?.play()
self.view.addSubview(avPlayerController.view)
}
}
You need to add the AVPlayerViewController as a child view controller so something like this:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var avPlayer: AVPlayer!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let filepath: String? = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "qidong", ofType: "mp4")
let fileURL = URL.init(fileURLWithPath: filepath!)
avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: fileURL)
let avPlayerController = AVPlayerViewController()
avPlayerController.player = avPlayer
avPlayerController.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: self.view.frame.size.height)
avPlayerController.showsPlaybackControls = false
avPlayerController.player?.play()
self.addChild(avPlayerController)
self.view.addSubview(avPlayerController.view)
avPlayerController.didMove(toParent: self)
}
If you are not doing that then the AVPlayerViewController is probably getting released early.
Another minor issue but don't use the size of the UIScreen but the frame of the view controllers view instead (or even better do something like use auto layout).
resizeAspect as the video gravity only works properly for me, when using an iPhone X.
For some reasons, the black aspect bar gets only added to the top and not to the bottom. This is how it looks like when I'm not using an iPhone X (the image is white)
This is how it should look like:
As you can see, on the iPhone X, everything looks clean and balanced as expected.
This is how I play the video:
avPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: avPlayer)
avPlayerLayer.frame = PreviewLayer.bounds
avPlayerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspect //Will automatically add black bars
PreviewLayer.layer.insertSublayer(avPlayerLayer, at: 0)
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: video)
avPlayer?.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
avPlayer?.play()
Try this steps
1- Check bottom constraint connect with safe are
2- Try this code
import UIKit
import AVKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var playerView: UIView!
private var player: AVPlayer!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
playVideo(from: "Intro.mp4")
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
private func playVideo(from file:String) {
let file = file.components(separatedBy: ".")
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: file[0], ofType:file[1]) else {
debugPrint( "\(file.joined(separator: ".")) not found")
return
}
player = AVPlayer(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: self.player.currentItem, queue: .main) { _ in
self.player?.seek(to: kCMTimeZero)
self.player?.play()
}
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspect
playerLayer.frame = playerView.layer.bounds
playerView.layer.insertSublayer(playerLayer, at: 0)
player.play()
}
}
Result on iphone X
Result on iphone 7
Note : if you need video full view on all devices try to link Bottom
constraint and Top constraint with superview not with safe area
Make your videoLayer View a subview of:
class VideoContainerView: UIView {
var playerLayer: CALayer?
override func layoutSublayers(of layer: CALayer) {
super.layoutSublayers(of: layer)
playerLayer?.frame = self.bounds
}
}
and add:
self.VideoShareLayer.playerLayer = avPlayerLayer;
before inserting the layer.
I want to play background video on login screen on swift 3.0. But when I run program, video do not working as full screen. It is workingHow can I fix this ? Here is the storyboard picture.
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import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var Player: AVPlayer!
var PlayerLayer: AVPlayerLayer!
var frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.height)
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
let URL:NSURL = NSURL(string: "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/pattyapp-34c16.appspot.com/o/dog1.mp4?alt=media&token=98ab3c41-c645-4535-a70b-41511b5df602")!
Player = AVPlayer.init(url: URL as URL)
PlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: Player)
PlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspect
PlayerLayer.frame.size = frame.size
Player.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEnd.none
Player.isMuted = true
Player.play()
view.layer.insertSublayer(PlayerLayer, at: 0)
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(playerItemReachEnd(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: Player.currentItem)
}
func playerItemReachEnd(notification: NSNotification) {
Player.seek(to: kCMTimeZero)
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
}
Play video into background you can use the following list of 3rd party library to resolve your problem.
VideoSplashKit
HAPlayerView
Video You are trying to play has dimensions different from layer size. I'd recommend You to try
PlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResize
or
PlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
Hi all i am trying to play a video from s3 using Avplayer. Now if i play the video, the video starts playback after the whole video is buffered. so I added player.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false, but now the video automatically pauses
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var player: AVPlayer!
var item : AVPlayerItem!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
item = AVPlayerItem(url: URL(string: "https://cent-churchconnect.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/cent-churchconnect/testAdmin/eb8cc8b5-80e0-468a-a2c9-979cf1b5ac76_toystory.mp4")!)
player = AVPlayer(playerItem: item)
let controller = AVPlayerViewController()
present(controller, animated: true) { _ in }
controller.player = player
addChildViewController(controller)
view.addSubview(controller.view)
controller.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 50, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: 300)
controller.player = player
controller.showsPlaybackControls = true
if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
player.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false
player.play()
} else {
// Fallback on earlier versions
}
}
}
I had the same issue below steps worked for me,
Try to use method func playImmediately(atRate:) and make sure the property player.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false is set properly.
Use method func playImmediately(atRate:) instead of func play()
I used the cocoa pod https://github.com/piemonte/Player.
You can use the delegate methods to control the playback.