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lox
lox

Reputation: 1622

How do I control playback of a video in an iOS Sprite Kit SKVideoNode?

I load a video into my Sprite Kit SKVideoNode, but how do I stop and restart the playback or go to a specific time in the video? All I see are play and pause methods.

// AVPlayer
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"HowToPlay" ofType:@"mp4"]];
_avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL];

// SKVideoNode
_videoNode = [SKVideoNode videoNodeWithAVPlayer:_avPlayer];
[_videoNode play];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1481

Answers (3)

lox
lox

Reputation: 1622

This turned out to work for me.

Restart:

[_videoNode removeFromParent];
 _videoNode = [SKVideoNode videoNodeWithVideoFileNamed:@"video.mp4"];
 _videoNode.position = ...
_videoNode.size = ...
[self addChild:_videoNode];
[_videoNode play];

Pause:

[_videoNode pause];
_videoNode.paused = YES;

Play:

[_videoNode play];
_videoNode.paused = NO;

Upvotes: 1

user4233369
user4233369

Reputation:

If you keep a reference to the AVPlayer object used to initialize the video node then you can control playback with its methods

Upvotes: 0

CodeSmile
CodeSmile

Reputation: 64478

All you can do with a SKVideoNode is documented here. play and pause are the only supported playback methods.

There is no stop because its equivalent to pause in this context - what should "stop" do, render a black texture? If the SKVideoNode should be removed on "stop" then just send it the removeFromParent message, that'll "stop" it.

Rewind is unnecessary because you can simply run the play method again or create a new SKVideoNode.

I assume jumping to a specific timeframe isn't supported because this can't be instant, so again there's the problem of what the node should display in the time until the video playback position was moved to the specified timestamp?

Upvotes: 0

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