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Nick Kirsten
Nick Kirsten

Reputation: 1187

AVPlayer seekToTime never completes

I am using AVPlayer to stream video remotely. Whenever I scrub and use seekToTime it works, and the video plays from the location, however if I do this enough times sequentially then the completion handler of seekToTime never returns with "finished == YES" and is stuck.

Also, when profiling the connections it shows that the buffer never loads again even if seekToTime is called again after that. I can drag the scrubber to the beginning and playback will resume however it is not buffering anymore so it will get stuck in a "buffering" state once the buffer runs out but no buffer will be downloading.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1401

Answers (2)

Tom Hamming
Tom Hamming

Reputation: 10961

I had this problem for a long time, but also noticed that even if the seek never completed, I would quickly get a current playback position update (via the block passed to addPeriodicTimeObserverForInterval:queue:usingBlock:) that matched the target seek.

It appears, though, that I was doing some things in the wrong order when initializing the player with an item. I would set an item, and when the player's status became AVPlayerStatusReadyToPlay I would begin the seek, and it would never complete. But if I don't begin the seek until the current player item status is AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay, everything works great.

Upvotes: 2

Nick Kirsten
Nick Kirsten

Reputation: 1187

The problem was with the content distribution network. The streaming url was expiring and then would no longer stream to the player

Upvotes: 1

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