AVPlayer buffering, pausing notification, and poster frame
1) AVPlayer
will buffer the video in several cases, none cleary documented. I'd say you can expect buffering when you init the video, and when you replace the current item.
You can observe currentItem.loadedTimeRanges
to know what's going on. That property will tell you which video time ranges has been loaded.
Also, there is a few other currentItem
properties that may help you: playbackLikelyToKeepUp
, playbackBufferFull
and playbackBufferEmpty
.
Achieving a perfect gapless playback is not easy.
/* player is an instance of AVPlayer */
[player addObserver:self
forKeyPath:@"currentItem.loadedTimeRanges"
options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew
context:kTimeRangesKVO];
In observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:
:
if (kTimeRangesKVO == context) {
NSArray *timeRanges = (NSArray *)[change objectForKey:NSKeyValueChangeNewKey];
if (timeRanges && [timeRanges count]) {
CMTimeRange timerange = [[timeRanges objectAtIndex:0] CMTimeRangeValue];
NSLog(@" . . . %.5f -> %.5f", CMTimeGetSeconds(timerange.start), CMTimeGetSeconds(CMTimeAdd(timerange.start, timerange.duration)));
}
}
2) Just keep an eye on player.rate
.
[player addObserver:self
forKeyPath:@"rate"
options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew
context:kRateDidChangeKVO];
Then in your observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:
:
if (kRateDidChangeKVO == context) {
NSLog(@"Player playback rate changed: %.5f", player.rate);
if (player.rate == 0.0) {
NSLog(@" . . . PAUSED (or just started)");
}
}
3) You can build a movie of a given length using a still image but it's easier to use a regular UIImageView
on top of the player. Hide/show it when needed.
Sample project: feel free to play with the code I wrote to support my answer.
Comments
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Omer Waqas Khan about 4 years
I have some questions related to
AVPlayer
which are:When we pause the
AVPlayer
through[player pause]
does theAVPlayer
keep buffering the video from the network or does it just stop? I couldn't get any info related to this in apple's documentation. Also, is it possible to force the AVPlayer to keep buffering while in pause, so that if we have the paused video is in waiting for the first video to be ended then we wouldn't find any gap in between the videos?On pausing the
AVPlayer
can we have any event on[player pause]
.Can we show still image on
AVPlayer
for some seconds?
Thanks
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Omer Waqas Khan almost 12 yearsthanx madmw, and can we force the avplayer to keep buffering while in pause state?
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djromero almost 12 yearsAFAIK there is no public api to work with AVPlayer buffer. If you want to keep buffering beyond the pause point you can fake the pause: keep playing w/out volume and with the view hidden, then use seekToTime to resume playback.
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user2734823 over 9 yearsThanks for this! A concrete example helped a lot.
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Hardik Kardani over 9 yearsi remove "kTimeRangesKVO" Observer but it not remove and continuously call please help me
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djromero over 9 years@JaiminPatel you know it's hard, close to impossible, to help you with such little information, right? Add a more detailed comment or consider asking a different question.
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Hardik Kardani over 9 yearsi try to remove observer like that [appDelegate.player removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"currentItem.playbackBufferEmpty" context:nil]; but it not remove and application are crash.
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Borzh about 9 yearsUse appDelegate.player.currentItem instead of appDelegate.player for both addObserver / removeObserver. Of course forKeyPath:@"currentItem.loadedTimeRanges" should be just forKeyPath:@"loadedTimeRanges"
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iPatel over 7 yearsFollow this answer. stackoverflow.com/questions/4218090/… Might be helpful for you.
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Daniel Arantes Loverde over 7 yearsThanks for you explanation and file on github. This file help a lot to understand more how to work with it!