Play Local Video File - ios

Question

I have followed a tutorial and trying to get a video to pop up when I press a button. The video pops up but the actual video does not start playing and I just get this screen....
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the code is as follows:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
import AVKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
var player:AVPlayer?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let videoString:String? = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "motorbikes", ofType: ".m4v")
if let url = videoString {
let videoURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: url)
self.player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL as URL)
}
}
#IBAction func goButton(_ sender: Any) {
self.present(self.playerController, animated: true, completion: {
self.playerController.player?.play()
})
}
}

Answer 1

You have forgot to set playercontroller's player instance as phuc-nguyen said
or else you can make use of AVPlayerLayer to play the video without using AVPlayerViewController
let player = AVPlayer(url: URL(string: "path/myvideo.mp4")!)
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player.play()
Using AVPlayerLayer you can customize the player like adding your own controls or views and it won't be a full screen view usually though.
But if you are not looking for any customization its good to stick with AVPlayerViewController it has all the controls baked in
Depends on your requirement