Videos stops and plays from the beginning instead of pausing ,swift AVPlayer - ios

Question

I have a uiView where I am playing a video with custom controls.
When I pause the video , it goes to the beginning of the video and pauses instead of pausing at that particular frame
Following is my Code
func playButtonTapped(cell: ViewTableCell) {
guard let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPath(for: cell) else {
return
}
let url = Bundle.main.path(forResource:ArtistFeeds.sharedInstance.videoFeeds[indexPath.row].videoUrl, ofType:"mp4")
let path = NSURL.fileURL(withPath: url!)
currentCell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath) as! ViewTableCell
currentCell.videoPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem.init(url: path)
let playImage = UIImage(named: "image_video_play") as UIImage?
let pauseImage = UIImage(named: "image_video_pause") as UIImage?
if currentCell.avPlayer?.rate == 1.0 {
currentCell.stopPlayback()
currentCell.playButton.isHidden = false
currentCell.playButton.setImage(playImage, for: .normal)
} else {
currentCell.startPlayback()
currentCell.playButton.isHidden = true
currentCell.playButton.setImage(pauseImage, for: .normal)
}
}
I am setting up the videoPlayer in the ViewTableCell class as follows
var avPlayer: AVPlayer?
var avPlayerLayer: AVPlayerLayer?
var videoPlayerItem: AVPlayerItem? = nil {
didSet {
avPlayer?.replaceCurrentItem(with: self.videoPlayerItem)
}
}
#IBAction func playButtonAction(_ sender: UIButton) {
self.delegate?.playButtonTapped(cell: self)
}
func setupMoviePlayer(){
self.avPlayer = AVPlayer.init(playerItem: self.videoPlayerItem)
avPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: avPlayer)
avPlayerLayer?.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspect
avPlayer?.volume = 3
avPlayer?.actionAtItemEnd = .none
avPlayerLayer?.frame = videoView.bounds
self.backgroundColor = .clear
videoView.layer.insertSublayer(avPlayerLayer!, at: 0)
let interval = CMTime(value: 1, timescale: 2)
avPlayer?.addPeriodicTimeObserver(forInterval: interval, queue: DispatchQueue.main, using :{ (progressTime) in
let seconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(progressTime)
if let duration = self.avPlayer?.currentItem?.duration{
let durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(duration)
self.videoSlider.value = Float(seconds/durationSeconds)
}
})
}
func stopPlayback(){
self.avPlayer?.pause()
}
func startPlayback(){
self.avPlayer?.play()
}
The problem is on every on click of the play button "currentCell.videoPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem.init(url: path)" is being called which is replacing the videoPlayerItem.
I want to pause the video at that particular frame and not go back to the beginning of the video.
How can I overcome this problem. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

You replace the videoPlayerItem every times you press the button. That's why it resets:
avPlayer?.replaceCurrentItem(with: self.videoPlayerItem)