So I'm building an app that has a view that will play a video when the segue is activated. When you run the simulator, you can hear the audio but not the image. Below is the code that I am using:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class CongratsVideoController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var videoView: UIView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setupView()
}
private func setupView() {
let path = URL(fileURLWithPath: Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Congrats Screen Apuntalo", ofType: "mov")!)
let player = AVPlayer(url: path)
let newLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
newLayer.frame = self.videoView.frame
self.videoView.layer.addSublayer(newLayer)
newLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resize
player.play()
}
//End of class
}
Any suggestions?
hello i am new to swift and i am using AVPlayerViewController for plaing video from my url but issue is that i am not able to load video only black screen showing let me show my code
Code
import UIKit
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var viewPlayer: UIView!
var player: AVPlayer!
var avpController = AVPlayerViewController()
var url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsQvAnCGxzY"
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url = URL(string: self.url)
player = AVPlayer(url: url!)
avpController.player = player
avpController.view.frame.size.height = viewPlayer.frame.size.height
avpController.view.frame.size.width = viewPlayer.frame.size.width
self.viewPlayer.addSubview(avpController.view)
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
}
Please refer code given and tell me where i am done wrong so that i can able to play video Thanks In Advance
Actually Its problem of URL .
AVPlayer never supports YouTube video. It supports mp4 format.
If you want to play a video in your ViewController, you have to use AVPlayerLayer. You have to implement player controllers yourself.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// creating video url
guard let videoURL = URL(string: "https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4") else {
return
}
// create AVPlayer
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
// setup AVPlayerLayer
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
// start playing
player.play()
}
Otherwise use AVPlayerViewController. Instead of using its view present the viewController itself.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// creating video url
guard let videoURL = URL(string: "https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4") else {
return
}
// setup AVPlayer and AVPlayerViewController
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerViewController.player = player
}
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
// presenting playerViewController only after the viewControllers view was added to a view hierarchy.
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true) {
playerViewController.player!.play()
}
}
I want to play a video in my ViewController(not in seperate ViewController).
in another words, i want to play my video in a rectangular View in my viewController. just like instagram posts. but i didn’t found any view in object library for that...!
You can try something like this
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class VideoPlayerViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var videoPreviewLayer: UIView!
private var player: AVPlayer!
private var playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
playVideoInView()
}
func playVideoInView() {
guard let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("videoName", ofType: "mp4") else {
return
}
let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path)
player = AVPlayer(url: url)
playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerViewController.player = player
playerViewController.view.frame = videoPreviewLayer.frame
self.addChildViewController(playerViewController)
self.view.addSubview(playerViewController.view)
}
}
playVideoInView function has what you need
I want to make an app for my mothers books where in the first viewcontroller there are images with buttons next to them that open a certain book in fullscreen. As much as I know I need a new viewcontroller to open webkitview in fullscreen. I managed to open webkitview in fullscreen through viewDidLoad() but I want to insert more than one book and that in a neet looking way.
All I need is to know how to tell the button to open the next viewcontroller where I spread webkitview over the whole display to make it act like fullscreen. Here is the code I did until now...
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var webViewDisplay: WKWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "prayers", ofType: "pdf")
let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: path!)
let request = URLRequest(url: url)
webViewDisplay.load(request)
}
}
You should configure your WkWebView first but you can't do that from storyboard. Instead of outlet try to add WKWebView programmaticaly.
private var webView: WKWebView?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let webViewConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webViewConfiguration)
view = webView
let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "prayers", ofType: "pdf")
let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: path!)
let request = URLRequest(url: url)
webView.load(request)
}
hello im trying to play video in background but its give an error and the error is " unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value " and im already set the video in Bundle and select copy if need
this the my code
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var avPlayer: AVPlayer!
var avPlayerLayer: AVPlayerLayer!
var paused: Bool = false
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Grad_Cap_Toss", withExtension: "mp4")
avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: url!)
avPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: avPlayer)
avPlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
avPlayer.volume = 0
avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEnd.none
avPlayerLayer.frame = view.layer.bounds
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear;
view.layer.insertSublayer(avPlayerLayer, at: 0)
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,selector: Selector(("playerItemDidReachEnd:")),name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,object: avPlayer.currentItem)
}
please any body have ideas for that , thank you
First, drag and drop video file in your project.
Then import AVFundation.
Add example: var player: AVPlayer?
#IBOutlet weak var videoView: UIView! - Connect view from storyboard to your VC class.
After that, you paste this code into your ViewController.
call "playBackgoundVideo()" in your viewDidLoad()
private func playBackgoundVideo() {
if let filePath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "your_video_here", ofType:"mp4") {
let filePathUrl = NSURL.fileURL(withPath: filePath)
player = AVPlayer(url: filePathUrl)
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.frame = self.videoView.bounds
playerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: self.player?.currentItem, queue: nil) { (_) in
self.player?.seek(to: kCMTimeZero)
self.player?.play()
}
self.videoView.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player?.play()
}
}
This is swift 4.0
it works ^__^
I had a similar problem and followed the instructions from Rick's answer to resolve it.
My problem was that I didn't have the video file in the bundle resources.
Check if your video file is listed in Copy Bundle Resources under Build Phases in the project. If not , use the + button to add the file in there.
Also you might be missing the avPlayer.play() statement in your code.
I was also trying to play a video in the background of my login page's view controller. I think the main issue is that the syntax you're using is deprecated.
Your code might look like the following:
import UIKit
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet var blackOverlay: UIView!
// init video background and its path
var player: AVPlayer?
let videoURL: NSURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "videoName", withExtension: "mp4")! as NSURL
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Adds a black overlay to the looped video in question
blackOverlay.alpha = 0.75;
blackOverlay.layer.zPosition = 0;
// begin implementing the avplayer
player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL as URL)
player?.actionAtItemEnd = .none
player?.isMuted = true
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
playerLayer.zPosition = -1
playerLayer.frame = view.frame
view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player?.play()
// add observer to watch for video end in order to loop video
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.loopVideo), name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: self.player)
// if video ends, will restart
func playerItemDidReachEnd() {
player!.seek(to: kCMTimeZero)
}
}
// maybe add this loop at the end, after viewDidLoad
// func loopVideo() { player?.seek(to: kCMTimeZero) player?.play()}}
Please let me know if this helps!
Drag and drop video file in your project.
Then import AVFundation
List item
#IBOutlet weak var videoView: UIView!, #IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!,#IBOutlet weak var image: UIImageView!,#IBOutlet weak var loginBtn: UIButton!
Connect view from storyboard to your VC class.
And then paste the given code in your ViewController and call playVideo() function in viewDidLoad().
func playVideo(){
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "intro", ofType: "mp4") else {
return
}
let player = AVPlayer(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
self.videoLayer.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player.play()
videoLayer.bringSubviewToFront(image)
videoLayer.bringSubviewToFront(label)
videoLayer.bringSubviewToFront(loginBtn)
videoLayer.bringSubviewToFront(signupBtn)
}
If url is nil and the video is being successfully copied into the bundle, the likely problem is case sensitivity. Make sure the filename is using the correct case. The iOS device filesystem is case sensitive, where as the iPhone simulator is not.
I had a same problem when I tried to play video background. I think it is the problem of video resource.
I resolved the problem like this way.
When you drag your video, you should check both of 'Copy items if needed' and 'Add to targets'.
Or you can just right click on the project navigator, click 'Add' to add resource.