I'm using AVPlayerViewController to play video in my application,
I don't want to make the player from scratch.
is there a way to add some other extra UI components and functionality to the AVPlayerViewController?
class AVKitViewController: AVPlayerViewController {
private let url =
URL(string:
"https://www.digikala.com/mag/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Call-of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-Story-Trailer.mp4")
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let video = AVPlayer(url: url!)
player = video
player?.play()
}
}
It looks like there is no way to do such thing. the only way possible, is to use AVFoundation to create our own AVPlayer from scratch.
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i need some help with playing stream on really simple ios app which i've made but i can load the stream into the browser and there won't be any problem, but when i try to load it into the ios app its only loading and i don't know what i did wrong.
url of the stream: https://tv1.cdn.netbadgers.com
ViewController.swift
import UIKit
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}
#IBAction func playBroadcastClicked(_ sender: Any) {
let videoURL = URL(string: "https://tv1.cdn.netbadgers.com")
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerViewController.player = player
self.present(playerViewController, animated:true) {
playerViewController.player!.play()
}
}
}
You url is not pointing to a video file, it is actually a HTML page with a video which will never play in the iOS AVPlayer.
Find the direct link to the video, also, make sure the video is in a supported format. If you want a quick solution, just add a WKWebView to your ViewController and then load your url.
I noticed a very odd behavior when working with AVPlayer from AVFoundation framework. I'm trying to stream (play) some mp3 radio file from internet.
So I created a new project in Xcode and added the following code to the default ViewController:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let player: AVPlayer = AVPlayer()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let asset = AVAsset(url: URL(string: "https://rfcmedia.streamguys1.com/Newport.mp3")!);
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset);
player.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
player.play();
}
}
There's nothing particularly interesting going on there. I just create an AVPlayerItem instance with the radio station URL and give it to AVPlayer and then ask the player object to play the song and it works just as expected.
However if I remove the player object instantiation from the class block and put it in the viewDidLoad method the code simply doesn't work (doesn't play anything) yet it doesn't crash or spit out any kinds of errors or warning.
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let player: AVPlayer = AVPlayer()
let asset = AVAsset(url: URL(string: "https://rfcmedia.streamguys1.com/Newport.mp3")!);
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset);
player.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
player.play();
}
}
I can't understand this behavior. Why is that happening? Is it limited to AVPlayer or I should watch out for cases like this?
As Andrea Mugnaini explained in the comments to my post, my second example is going to cause an immediate deallocation by the ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) as we don't keep a strong reference to the AVPlayer object.
This is a common pitfall of developers new to Apple's ecosystem.
Right now my task is to stream a video from a site like this http://watchers.to/sazktfmnvzqc.html on an iPhone. (Be warned, there are tons of pop ups)
I've tried using a UIWebView to simply open up a portal for clicking the video at that URL, but honestly they're so many pop ups its actually impossible.
Is there any clever way to circumvent this that you all can think of? Like code that I could use to instantly click underneath the popup overlay or even click on the overlay the required amount of times, instantly reloading back from the new page to stream the video? Just looking for a direction to go.
Thanks!
First you have to know the exact URL of the video. Then you can use an AVPlayerViewController, which needs an AVPlayer initialised with this URL.
Example:
import AVFoundation // this you need for the `AVPlayer`
import AVKit // this is for the `AVPlayerViewController`
let viewController = AVPlayerViewController()
let videoURL = "http://you.videourl.com"
if let player = AVPlayer.playerWithURL(videoURL) as? AVPlayer {
viewController = player
}
Then you can push the view controller and play the video.
I got if from here.
Worked for me.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/MediaPlaybackGuide/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/GettingStarted/GettingStarted.html
func play (){
//Your video path URL
guard let url = URL(string: "http://www.xxx.xxx/xx/xxxx/xxxxxxx.mov") else {return}
let player = AVPlayer(url: url)
let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerController.player = player
self.present(playerController, animated: true) {
player.play()
}
}
I create an iOS app that make use of Vimeo for playing videos. I was wondering what the best method is to show Vimeo videos within iOS Swift.
I have fixed that, when an image is clicked, the placeholder image will be hidden, but the video won't play directly. Beside that all Vimeo Interface elements are visible. I know you should have to give credits to Vimeo, so it goes without saying that I display an Vimeo logo at the bottom of the video. Is there a possibility to hide all Vimeo elements of the web player?
Sources where I can find more information would be nice.
If there are any questions left, let me know!
Thanks in advance.
You can use this Swift library HCVimeoVideoExtractor to extract the mp4 video URL then use AVPlayer to play it. Simply pass the Vimeo video link or video id.
let url = URL(string: "https://vimeo.com/254597739")!
HCVimeoVideoExtractor.fetchVideoURLFrom(url: url, completion: { ( video:HCVimeoVideo?, error:Error?) -> Void in
if let err = error {
print("Error = \(err.localizedDescription)")
return
}
guard let vid = video else {
print("Invalid video object")
return
}
print("Title = \(vid.title), url = \(vid.videoURL), thumbnail = \(vid.thumbnailURL)")
if let videoURL = vid.videoURL[.Quality540p] {
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerController.player = player
self.present(playerController, animated: true) {
player.play()
}
}
})
The best way that I've been able to figure out is to use a WKWebView or UIWebView. Steps:
Add a WKWebView of desired size inside the View Controller.
Get the video embed code from the original Vimeo video (Click on the "Share" button below the video to find the embed code.)
Click on "More Options" on the Vimeo Share sheet that pops-up to configure the look of the embed video.
Use the following code sample to embed the video:
let webView = WKWebView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: self.view.frame.size.height))
self.view.addSubview(webView)
let embedHTML="<html><head><style type=\"text/css\">body {background-color: transparent;color: black;}</style><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes\"/></head><body style=\"margin:0\"><div><iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/139785390?autoplay=1&title=1&byline=1&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div></body></html>"
let url = URL(string: "https://")!
webView.loadHTMLString(embedHTML as String, baseURL:url )
webView.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.scaleAspectFit
The way that I've managed to implement this is using AVKit and AVFoundation:
let url: URL! = URL(string: "https://01-lvl3-pdl.vimeocdn.com/01/3355/3/91775232/243724947.mp4?expires=1498547278&token=073f7b03877a8ed3c8029")
let player: AVPlayer = AVPlayer(url: url)
let controller: AVPlayerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
controller.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
controller.player = player
// Add `controller` to your view somehow
player.play()
The trick being that you cannot use the link where it displays the website (in my case https://vimeo.com/91775232).
I had to inspect the source and find the actual URL for the video (i.e.: https://01-lvl3-pdl.vimeocdn.com/01/3355/3/91775232/243724947.mp4?expires=1498547278&token=073f7b03877a8ed3c8029).
Once I used that, everything worked fine.
For Swift 4, I have used WKWebView in storyboard and implemented following code:
import WebKit
#IBOutlet weak var webKitView: WKWebView!
To play video in WebView :
if yourVimeoLink.lowercased().contains("vimeo.com") {
let url: NSURL = NSURL(string: yourVimeoLink)
webKitView.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.scaleAspectFit
webKitView.load(URLRequest(url: url as URL))
}
Hope will help! :)
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
let videoURL = "https://vimeo.com/blablabla/whatevertheURLis"
func playExternalVideo() {
let videoURL = NSURL(string: self.videoURL)
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL as! URL)
let playerViewController = AVPlayerView()
playerViewController.player = player
}
Make sure to add the AVKit Player View and give it a class of AVPlayerView. As for the Vimeo deal, it should play without Vimeo's UI Controls. For more help watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhD7hXrpExE
I have simple example.
1) i create AVPlayerViewController in Interface builder
2) i create own custom class extend of AVPlayerViewController
3) i write several line of code
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url = NSURL(string: "http://188.143.133.203/106.3/index.m3u8")
self.player = AVPlayer(URL: url!)
self.player?.play()
}
I`ts better works, but if device state in silents mode then my video play without sound.
I tray turn on sound in player manually, like this:
self.player?.muted = false
self.player?.volume = 1.0
but its not work too.
Set your audio session's category to AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback (and activate it).