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

For SWIFT 3.0 This is working fine

class PlayVideoViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: #selector(PlayVideoViewController.finishVideo), name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: nil)
    }

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

Answer 2

Swift 4.2 Version:

var player: AVPlayer!
  //
  //
// Configure Player
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    let filepath: String? = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "selectedFileName", ofType: "mp4")
    if let filepath = filepath {
        let fileURL = URL.init(fileURLWithPath: filepath)
        player = AVPlayer(url: fileURL)
        let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
        // Register for notification
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
                                               selector: #selector(playerItemDidReachEnd),
                                                         name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
                                                         object: nil) // Add observer

        playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
        self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
        player.play()
    }
}
// Notification Handling
@objc func playerItemDidReachEnd(notification: NSNotification) {
    player.seek(to: CMTime.zero)
    player.play()
}
// Remove Observer
deinit {
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
}

Answer 3

For SWIFT 3.0

Here 'fullUrl' is the URL of the video and make sure that there would be no space in the URL, You should replace 'Space' with '%20' so that URL will work file.

  let videoURL = NSURL(string: fullUrl)
  let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL! as URL)

  playerViewController.delegate = self
  playerViewController.player = player
  self.present(playerViewController, animated: false) {

    self.playerViewController.player!.play()

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(yourViewControllerName.playerDidFinishPlaying), name: Notification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: self.player?.currentItem)
  }

Add this below given method in your view controller.

func playerDidFinishPlaying(){    
print("Video Finished playing in style")
}