How to properly delete/release AVPlayer/AVPlayerItem? - ios

I am implementing a video app, that lists video and able to stream or watch local videos. If I try to watch videos with my player that inherits from AVPlayer, a lot of threads initated, after 15-20 times, the system does not alloc the AVPlayer well and, even if I do not get any error, the player view is blank and nothing happening...I need to kill app to restore.
How to deal with it?
Thanks in advance

I had the same issue, in my case the AVPlayerLayer didn’t get DE allocated successfully because somehow a custom label grabbed the strong reference of controller and the controller did not get DE allocated.


Implement
deinit {
}


in your controller and check this called or not. If not you have the solution.

I hope this helps.

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