Impossible to stop AVPlayer
Solution 1
If you declare player
as an optional variable, you can then set the player to nil
to deallocate it.
Silly example but it shows what happens:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var btnPlay: UIButton!
var player:AVPlayer?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
@IBAction func btnPress(sender: AnyObject) {
if (btnPlay.titleLabel?.text == "Play") {
initPlayer()
btnPlay.setTitle("Stop", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
} else {
stopPlayer()
btnPlay.setTitle("Play", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
}
}
func initPlayer() {
if let play = player {
print("playing")
play.play()
} else {
print("player allocated")
player = AVPlayer(URL: NSURL(string: "http://streaming.radio.rtl.fr/rtl-1-48-192")!)
print("playing")
player!.play()
}
}
func stopPlayer() {
if let play = player {
print("stopped")
play.pause()
player = nil
print("player deallocated")
} else {
print("player was already deallocated")
}
}
}
Solution 2
From this post I found the best solution to completely stop AVPlayer before you leave or start a new player:
videoPlayer.replaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem(nil)
[Update] For SWIFT 3:
player.replaceCurrentItem(with: nil)
Solution 3
SWIFT 3 Version:
player.replaceCurrentItem(with: nil)
w3spi
Updated on July 30, 2022Comments
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w3spi almost 2 years
I am currently testing the use of AVPlayer with audio streaming url, using Swift. There are play() and pause() methods, but the problem is that, pausing only, the stream remains cached in the device.
Here is my test code :
import UIKit import AVFoundation class ViewController: UIViewController { let player = AVPlayer(URL: NSURL(string: "http://streaming.radio.rtl.fr/rtl-1-48-192")!) @IBOutlet weak var btnPlay: UIButton! override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() } @IBAction func btnPress(sender: AnyObject) { if (btnPlay.titleLabel?.text == "Play") { initPlayer() btnPlay.setTitle("Stop", forState: UIControlState.Normal) } else { stopPlayer() btnPlay.setTitle("Play", forState: UIControlState.Normal) } } func initPlayer() { player.play() } func stopPlayer() { // player.currentItem = nil // Last thing I tried, but generate an error player.pause() } }
Here are the issues when trying somethings :
player = nil
: "Cannot assign a value of type 'NilLiteralCOnvertible' to a value of type 'AVPlayer'"player.currentItem = nil
: "Cannot assign to property: 'currentItem' is a get-only property"
I tried everything, even through AVQueuePlayer without any effective result. (obviously, since I only have one item in my case).
How to stop AVPlayer or destroy his instance ?
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w3spi over 8 yearsThank you for your answer. I'm sure your solution works, but so how to reallocate the player when re-enter in function
initPlayer()
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James Bush almost 8 yearsThis is the correct answer. Please award the answerer with your approval.
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Pramod Tapaniya about 7 years@EricAya have you know how to play continues audio after destroyed that ViewController on we have created instance of AVPlayer.
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Pramod Tapaniya about 7 yearsHave you know how to play continues audio after destroyed that ViewController on we have created instance of AVPlayer.
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BenHedges over 6 yearsThis works! For swift3: videoPlayer.replaceCurrentItem(with: nil)
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Krishna Kirana about 6 yearsplayer.pause() player.replaceCurrentItem(with: nil)
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Cloy about 4 yearsThanks @taynguyen saved a lot of my time
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Lance Samaria over 3 yearsthis is definitely the answer