Stop AV Player after done is pressed - ios

Question

I get my local video to load into a new view controller, but after hitting done it disappears and immediately pops back up again. I don't know if there is a way to track the notifications or what.
Here is my code:
import UIKit
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class VideoController1: UIViewController {
var playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
var playerView = AVPlayer()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
let fileURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/jamesjarrett/Desktop/NIMS/NIMS/NIMS/Vid2.mp4")
playerView = AVPlayer(url: fileURL as URL)
playerViewController.player = playerView
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true){
self.playerViewController.player?.play()
}
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}
}

Answer 1

You put your code
let fileURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/jamesjarrett/Desktop/NIMS/NIMS/NIMS/Vid2.mp4")
playerView = AVPlayer(url: fileURL as URL)
playerViewController.player = playerView
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true){
self.playerViewController.player?.play()
}
inside of ViewDidAppear for the ViewController.
ViewDidAppear() occurs when your view is presented on the screen again. So this means, that when the AVPlayer is closed, it goes back to that View, and the AVPlayer will be presented again.
You have 2 options:
Make a UIButton and an Action to that button
var button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(0, self.view.frame.height*0.9, self.view.frame.width, self.view.frame.height*0.1))
button.addTarget(self, #selector(VideoController1.playController), nil)
self.view.addSubview(button)
let fileURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/jamesjarrett/Desktop/NIMS/NIMS/NIMS/Vid2.mp4")
func playController() {
playerView = AVPlayer(url: fileURL as URL)
playerViewController.player = playerView
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true){
self.playerViewController.player?.play()
}
}
-- OR --
If you want the controller to play only the first time the user sees the view, and that is it, then you can do
var played = false
func viewDidAppear() {
if(!played) {
let fileURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/jamesjarrett/Desktop/NIMS/NIMS/NIMS/Vid2.mp4")
playerView = AVPlayer(url: fileURL as URL)
playerViewController.player = playerView
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true){
played = true
self.playerViewController.player?.play()
}
}
}
Don't quote me on the code above, just typed it up real quick to give you a general idea.