How to detect when AVPlayer video ends playing?

Question

I'am using AVPlayer for playing local video file (mp4) in Swift. Does anyone know how to detect when video finish with playing? Thanks

Answer 1

Swift 3.0

let videoPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector:#selector(self.playerDidFinishPlaying(note:)),name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: player.currentItem)

func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification){
    //Called when player finished playing
}

Answer 2

To get the AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification your object needs to be an AVPlayerItem.

To do so, just use the .currentItem property on your AVPlayer

Now you will get a notification once the video ends!

See my example:

let videoPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)       

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "playerDidFinishPlaying:",
        name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: videoPlayer.currentItem)

func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification) {
    print("Video Finished")
}

Swift 3

let videoPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)       

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: Selector(("playerDidFinishPlaying:")), 
       name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: videoPlayer.currentItem)

func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification) {
    print("Video Finished")
}

Don't forget to remove the Observer in your deinit

Answer 3

Swift 4.0

This one works for me. Thanks to @Channel

    private func playVideo(fileURL: String) {

            // Create RUL object
            let url = URL(string: fileURL)

            // Create Player Item object
            let playerItem: AVPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: url!)
            // Assign Item to Player
            let player = AVPlayer(playerItem: playerItem)

            // Prepare AVPlayerViewController
            let videoPlayer = AVPlayerViewController()
            // Assign Video to AVPlayerViewController
            videoPlayer.player = player

            NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(myViewController.finishVideo), name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: nil)

            // Present the AVPlayerViewController
            present(videoPlayer, animated: true, completion: {
                    // Play the Video
                    player.play()
            })

    }

    @objc func finishVideo()
    {
            print("Video Finished")
    }

Answer 4

Swift 3.0

let videoPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector:#selector(self.playerDidFinishPlaying(note:)),name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: player.currentItem)

@objc func playerDidFinishPlaying(note: NSNotification){
        print("Video Finished")
    }

Answer 5

I know there are a lot of accepted answers here...

But, another route might be to add a boundary time observer to your AVPlayer. You would have to have the duration of the video, which you can get from your player.currentItem, and then add it as your desired time boundary.

fileprivate var videoEndObserver: Any?

func addVideoEndObserver() {
    guard let player = YOUR_VIDEO_PLAYER else { return }

    // This is just in case you are loading a video from a URL.
    guard let duration = player.currentItem?.duration, duration.value != 0 else {
        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.5, execute: { [weak self] in
            self?.addVideoEndObserver()
        })

        return
    }

    let endTime = NSValue(time: duration - CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(0.1, duration.timescale))
    videoEndObserver = player.addBoundaryTimeObserver(forTimes: [endTime], queue: .main, using: {
        self.removeVideoEndObserver()

        // DO YOUR STUFF HERE...
    })
}

func removeVideoEndObserver() {
    guard let observer = videoEndObserver else { return }

    videoPlayer.player?.removeTimeObserver(observer)
    videoEndObserver = nil
}

Answer 6

In Swift 3 and RxSwift 3.5 all you have to do is:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    NotificationCenter.default.rx.notification(Notification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime)
        .asObservable().subscribe(onNext: { [weak self] notification in

            //Your action

        }).addDisposableTo(disposeBag)
}