MPMoviePlayerController Stops Playing After 5 seconds - Swift - ios

Question

I have a video I'm trying to play using MPMoviePlayerController and it loads fine, but cuts out after 5 seconds. I found this post, but it isn't really applicable for swift.
MPMoviePlayerController stops playing the video after 5s
Here is my code.
import MediaPlayer
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
var moviePlayer: MPMoviePlayerController?
let url = NSURL(string: "http://path/to/video.m3u8")
moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url)
if let player = moviePlayer {
player.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: self.view.frame.size.height)
player.view.sizeToFit()
player.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingMode.None
player.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceType.Streaming
//player.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatMode.One
player.play()
self.view.addSubview(player.view)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(
self,
selector: "metadataUpdated",
name: MPMoviePlayerTimedMetadataUpdatedNotification,
object: nil)
}
}

Answer 1

Could your moviePlayer be going out of scope? Have you tried making it a member variable?
moviePlayer is a local variable of viewDidLoad, so once that function finishes, I don't see any reason why your player would not be deallocated.
If you instead make it a variable of the class, its lifetime will be extended to match your class's lifetime.
something like
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var player: MPMoviePlayerController?
override func viewDidLoad() {
// ...
self.player = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url) // won't go out of scope at end of viewDidLoad()
// ...
}