AVPlayer Play, Pause and Buffering issue - ios

Question

My app plays a streaming video, but when it buffers, the player goes to the pause mode and I have to set it to play mode again manually, I have the following code in my AVPlayer class in order to handle this situation, but it does not work.
In the ViewDidLoad method
[playerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"playbackBufferEmpty" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
[playerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"playbackLikelyToKeepUp" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
and then, handling the observers using the following methods
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object
change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
if (!player)
{
return;
}
else if (object == playerItem && [keyPath isEqualToString:#"playbackBufferEmpty"])
{
if (playerItem.playbackBufferEmpty) {
//Your code here
}
}
else if (object == playerItem && [keyPath isEqualToString:#"playbackLikelyToKeepUp"])
{
if (playerItem.playbackLikelyToKeepUp)
{
//Your code here
}
}
}
is there a another solution for this problem in order to get the player to continues play mode?

Answer 1

This might help,
suppose this is your AVPlayer object
player1 = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:streamURL];
When your video goes in buffer mode then you can pause it and when it done play it again like:
In observer method,
if ([object isKindOfClass:[AVPlayerItem class]])
{
AVPlayerItem *item = (AVPlayerItem *)object;
//playerItem status value changed?
if ([keyPath isEqualToString:#"status"])
{ //yes->check it...
NSLog(#"STATUS = %d",item.status);
switch(item.status)
{
case AVPlayerItemStatusFailed:
NSLog(#"player item status failed");
break;
case AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay:
[playButton setTitle:#"Pause" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[player1 play];
NSLog(#"player item status is ready to play");
break;
case AVPlayerItemStatusUnknown:
NSLog(#"player item status is unknown");
break;
}
}
else if ([keyPath isEqualToString:#"playbackBufferEmpty"])
{
if (item.playbackBufferEmpty)
{
[playButton setTitle:#"Play" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[player1 pause];
NSLog(#"player item playback buffer is empty");
}
}
}
or you can maintain on button click event.
Place one button on your screen to maintain play and pause and addTarget to it with OnClick event.