I am using multiple AVPlayers to display content on my screen and they are all playing video simultaneously.
The issue is that sometimes the avplayer is playing but the avplayerlayer isn't showing anything- all you get is a blank screen. This happens randomly. I don't even know how to debug this.
Has anyone had these same issues with AVPLayers or AVPlayer layers? Can you reference the same alaasset from different players at the same time? I'm guessing that these
I had this issue when the URL video I was trying to play did not have an extension. After I appended mp4 as path extension, the video started to play in the layer.
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I have a video playing in a wkwebview.
If I start another video playing in a native avplayer instance the wkwebview video pauses. And vice-versa.
This is within a single app.
Is there a way to allow both to keep playing?
I resolved the issue, placing this line
AVudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback, options: [.duckOthers])
at the start of the app (ie. the SceneDelegate)
I am new to iOS app developing field. I am trying to capture video using AVFoundation. I am successful in this. But when I tried to play the video back using MPMoviePlayerController, I got too many issues. So I am trying to play using AVPlayer.
But in AVPlayer there are two approaches AVPlayerLayer and AVPlayerViewController.
I tried searching about those, but I didn't get any particular reason to choose one.
Can anyone suggest me which is better to use?
AVPlayerViewController is an all in one solution. You setup your AVPlayer with a video and present the player controller. It handles all the playing and has its own controls baked in (I'm sure you've used seen this in other apps). It is the simplest way to show a video.
AVPlayerLayer is for when you want to add some customization, like adding your own controls or extra views, or not making the video full screen.
I am developing application like gaana.com
Which player can be used for play mp3 songs from server url ? I want
to implement Play, Pause, Next, Previous buttons And will also play
song list in background mode one by one.
I have already implemented AVPlayer but i getting issue in playing
next audio in background mode. And i had tried all answers regarding
this issue but none of all is working for me.
So i am finding alternative of AVPlayer.
I used a MPMoviePlayerController to play online video in another view controller. It works well most times. But sometimes the player plays video without pictures while the sound and progress bar are working. After the black screen occurs, if I change to play another video, it will often works well. Can someone tell me what's the problem and how can I fix it?
Try to use MPMoviePlayerController to play online video.
It is the best controller for playing online videos.
I have a video composition which I'd like to play over Airplay (without mirroring). The app works as expected when using normal Airplay mirroring, but I'd like to get the speed, reliability, and resolution bump you get from using Airplay video instead.
The problem is that when I set
player.usesAirPlayVideoWhileAirPlayScreenIsActive = YES;
...the player goes blank.
Notes:
Since I don't create separate windows for each display, they are both trying to use the same AVPlayer.
My AVVideoComposition contains different files and adds opacity ramps between them.
This unanswered question suggests that the problem is more likely due to the fact that I'm playing an AVComposition than the use of a shared player: AVComposition doesn't play via Airplay Video
Two questions:
Do I have to get rid of the player on the iPad?
Can an AVVideoComposition ever be played over AirPlay?
I can't make comments so I had to post this as an answer although it might not fully respond to the questions.
I had similar issue and at the end I found out that when AVPlayer plays AVComposition it simply doesn't display anything on the external display. That's why I had to do it myself by listening to UIScreen connection notifications.
I have to say that all worked pretty perfect. I'm checking first if there are more than one screen and if there are I simply move the AVPlayer on that screen while displaying a simple message on the device's screen that content is played on... plus the name of AirPlay device. This way I can put whatever I want on the external display and is not very complicated. Same thing is when I receive UIScreenDidConnectNotification.
That was fine until I noticed that the composition plays really choppy on the the external display. Even if it consists of only one video without any complex edits or overlays. Same video plays perfectly if I save it to the Camera Roll or if I use MPMoviePlayerController.
I've tried many things like lowering resolutions, lowering renderScale and so on but with no success.
One thing bothers me more is how actually Apple do this in iMovie - if you have AirPlay enabled and you play a project (note it's still not rendered so it must use a composition in order to display it) right after tapping play button it opens a player that plays content really smoothly on the external monitor. If you however activate AirPlay from the player it closes and start rendering the project. After that it plays it I thing by using MPMoviePlayerController.
I'm still trying to find a solution and will post back if I have any success.
So for the two questions:
I don't see why you have to get rid.
Yes it can be played but with different technique and obviously issues.
in the app .plist create a new item called:
required background modes
add a new array element called:
App plays audio or streams audio/video using AirPlay
Not sure if you have already tried this, but you don't mention it in your post.
Cheers!