could not load URL AVPlayer not playing video - ios

Question

*Below two lines are for those who wants to use AVPlayer in their app.
This player works fine if i uncomment middle line in comments i.e NSURL *url and set the first line below comments i.e playerWithUrl:url , and comment the starting two lines.
*Below is My Real Problem, I need Help.
But i am not able to set URL the value to the player method-playerWithURL which is a first line below comments, and i am setting it through fileURL instance which i have created at starting in 2 line. IN the debugger it shows API path in *localfilepath. but when i am setting local file path to player through fileURL it shows nil.
But if i use middle line in comments i.e set *url for player everything works fine.
Help me to convert API into URL for that player property
NSString *localfilepath=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",[managedObject valueForKey:#"clip_path"]];
NSURL *fileURL=[NSURL fileURLWithPath:localfilepath]; //because of this i am getting video URL but something #"file://" gets attached to it in the end thus not playing video URL because of that fileURLWithPath suggest something another way to fetch URL
// videoAVURLAsset = [AVURLAsset assetWithURL:fileURL];
// NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:#"http://www.example.com/example_clips/SHAINA%20NC%20NEWS%20X%20180516%201657PM.mp4"];
// created player here //
player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL]; //here i want to set the value which is in the *localfileurl
AVPlayerViewController *controller = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
[self addChildViewController:controller];
[self.view addSubview:controller.view];
controller.view.frame = CGRectMake(10,80,300,300);
controller.player = player;
controller.showsPlaybackControls = YES;
[player pause];
[player play];

Answer 1

You should be using [NSURL fileURLWithPath:] to generate the URL object from a local file path string:
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:localfilepath];

Answer 2

Here is how I play a video in iOS:
First create a web view
Then link it to your view controller code
and then add this in the viewdidload()
//add the video to the player
let myYoutubeVideo = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/YNUEAxUGxyE"
let myHTMLString = "<iframe width=\"\(videoPlayer.frame.width)\" height=\"\(videoPlayer.frame.height)\" src=\"\(myYoutubeVideo)?&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>"
videoPlayer.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
videoPlayer.loadHTMLString(myHTMLString, baseURL: nil)
videoPlayer.frame = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
videoPlayer.center = self.view.center
videoPlayer.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
Try putting the file in this directory
#if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR
// where are you?
NSLog(#"Documents Directory: %#", [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject]);
#endif
This is the Documents directory for your app in the simulator. Then try to run it from there.
That way it should act like its pulling off the phone and not your local pc.
And give this a try too
file:///Users/codercat/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/YourProjectDict/data/Containers/Data/Application/(sample digit)7F53CFB3-C534-443F-B595-62619BA808F2/Documents/your file located here
This one is for Xcode 7 and higher

Answer 3

i have made it guys :) i found the answer :) this is a complete solution if you have many video URL's and you want to play videos from server directly in your player so you need to fetch all your clip paths properly first and use the following code
// here i am fetching all the url downloaded from server using core data managed objects
NSString *localfilepath=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",[managedObject valueForKey:#"clip_path"]];
// then on below line i am encoding it into NSUTF8StringEncoding format
don't forget to do this otherwise video will not play as it wasn't in my case
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[localfilepath stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
// and below i have assigned url to the player and created the player
player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:url];
AVPlayerViewController *controller = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
[self addChildViewController:controller];
[self.view addSubview:controller.view];
controller.view.frame = CGRectMake(10,80,300,300);
controller.player = player;
controller.showsPlaybackControls = YES;
//player.closedCaptionDisplayEnabled = NO;
[player pause];
[player play];