AVPlayer starts to reproduce a video after a long delay - ios

Question

Delay is about 10 seconds.
Snippet of my code. It's *.m file of HomeController:
#interface HomeController ()
#property(nonatomic, strong) AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController;
#implementation HomeController
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
...
self.playerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
}
- (IBAction)watchDemoToggle:(id)sender {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://blahblahblah.com/demo.mp4"];
AVURLAsset *asset = [AVURLAsset assetWithURL: url];
AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset];
if(playerItem)
{
AVPlayer *player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
self.playerViewController.player = player;
[self.playerViewController.player addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"status" options:0 context:nil];
[self.playerViewController setShowsPlaybackControls:NO];
[self presentViewController:self.playerViewController animated:YES completion:^{
[self.playerViewController.player play];
self.playerViewController.showsPlaybackControls = YES;
}];
}
}
#pragma mark - KVO
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath
ofObject:(id)object
change:(NSDictionary *)change
context:(void *)context {
if ([keyPath isEqualToString:#"status"]) {
AVPlayerStatus status = [change[NSKeyValueChangeNewKey] integerValue];
NSLog(#"status = %ld", (long)status);
}
}
I added KVO and got result that after click play player status is AVPlayerStatusUnknown. After that it is not changing despite the fact that the video is reproducing.
Does anyone have any idea?

Answer 1

set automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling property of AVPlayer to false in order to start playback immediately.
AVPlayer *player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
player.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false;
But if sufficient content is not available for playing then player might stall.
for more details please refer this Apple documentation.
avplayer