Unable to load video stream in - ios

Question

I am new to iOS development,
I want to stream video from webapi, The files are streamed from our backend server which requires authentication. It is key-based authenticated set in the Authorization HTTP Header.
I tried with AVPlayer didn't got my output. After doing some more research, i found customProtocol will be more useful do it so i have used customProtocol and tried with this code but the customProtocol is not getting called customProtocol.h, customProtocol.m
[NSURLProtocol registerClass:[MyCustomProtocol class]];
NSString *theURLString = #"customProtocol://abcd.com/download";
player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:theURLString]];
[self.view addSubview:player.view];
player.view.frame = self.view.frame;
[player play];
Can any one help me here? where i a making mistake?
Thank you in advance!
This is my customProtocol code :
#implementation MyCustomProtocol
+ (BOOL) canInitWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request {
NSURL* theURL = request.URL;
NSString* scheme = theURL.scheme;
if([scheme isEqualToString:#"customProtocol"]) {
return YES;
}
return NO;
}
// You could modify the request here, but I'm doing my legwork in startLoading
+ (NSURLRequest *)canonicalRequestForRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request {
return request;
}
// I'm not doing any custom cache work
+ (BOOL) requestIsCacheEquivalent:(NSURLRequest *)a toRequest:(NSURLRequest *)b {
return [super requestIsCacheEquivalent:a toRequest:b];
}
// This is where I inject my header
// I take the handled request, add a header, and turn it back into http
// Then I fire it off
- (void) startLoading {
NSMutableURLRequest* mutableRequest = [self.request mutableCopy];
Constants *constants = [Constants sharedInstance];
[mutableRequest setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Bearer %#",constants.access_token] forHTTPHeaderField:#"Authorization"];
NSURL* newUrl = [[NSURL alloc] initWithScheme:#"http" host:[mutableRequest.URL host] path:[mutableRequest.URL path]];
[mutableRequest setURL:newUrl];
self.connection = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:mutableRequest delegate:self];
}
- (void) stopLoading {
[self.connection cancel];
}
// Below are boilerplate delegate implementations
// They are responsible for letting our client (the MPMovePlayerController) what happened
- (void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
[self.client URLProtocol:self didFailWithError:error];
self.connection = nil;
}
- (void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
[self.client URLProtocol:self didLoadData:data];
}
- (void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
[self.client URLProtocol:self didReceiveResponse:response cacheStoragePolicy:NSURLCacheStorageAllowed];
}
- (void) connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
[self.client URLProtocolDidFinishLoading:self];
self.connection = nil;
}

Answer 1

if you have passed authentication header with url then you can use below code
NSMutableDictionary * headers = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[headers setObject:#"Your UA" forKey:#"User-Agent"];
AVURLAsset * asset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:URL options:#{#"AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey" : headers}];
AVPlayerItem * item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset];
self.player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:item];
it may work...try it

Answer 2

MPMoviePlayerViewController * movieController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
movieController.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:movieController];
[movieController.moviePlayer play];