I'm trying to play a video from a server using Swift.
I have imported MediaPlayer framework, here is my code:
import UIKit
import MediaPlayer
class VideoViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
var url:NSURL = NSURL(string: "http://jplayer.org/video/m4v/Big_Buck_Bunny_Trailer.m4v")
var moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url)
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRect(x: 20, y: 100, width: 200, height: 150)
self.view.addSubview(moviePlayer.view)
moviePlayer.fullscreen = true
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyle.Embedded
}
}
I only get a black box when I run in the simulator but no video is playing no matter where I try to load a video from.
UPDATE
Here is the current code
var url:NSURL = NSURL(string: "http://jplayer.org/video/m4v/Big_Buck_Bunny_Trailer.m4v")
var moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url)
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRect(x: 20, y: 100, width: 200, height: 150)
moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceType.File
self.view.addSubview(moviePlayer.view)
moviePlayer.prepareToPlay()
moviePlayer.play()
This code interestingly plays ~2 seconds of video before going black again!
Solved:
import UIKit
import MediaPlayer
class VideoViewController: UIViewController {
var moviePlayer:MPMoviePlayerController!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url:NSURL = NSURL(string: "http://jplayer.org/video/m4v/Big_Buck_Bunny_Trailer.m4v")
moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url)
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRect(x: 20, y: 100, width: 200, height: 150)
self.view.addSubview(moviePlayer.view)
moviePlayer.fullscreen = true
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyle.Embedded
}
}
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
class VideoController: UIViewController
override func viewDidLoad()
{
let videoURL = NSURL(string: "VideoUr")
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL! as URL)
let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerViewController.player = player
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true) {
playerViewController.player!.play()
}
}
Import the libraries:
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
import MediaPlayer
import AudioToolbox
Set delegaete like this
AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate
Wrtie pretty code where you want to play like button action:
let videoURL = URL(string: "https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4")
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
let playervc = AVPlayerViewController()
playervc.delegate = self
playervc.player = player
self.present(playervc, animated: true) {
playervc.player!.play()
}
100% working and test
I just was having the same issues..
MPMoviePlayerController Stops Playing After 5 seconds - Swift
The issue is your var moviePlayer is going out of scope. By declaring it outside of viewDidLoad like @Victor-Sigler did above, you prevent the black screen issue from happening.