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Echizzle
Echizzle

Reputation: 3459

AVPlayer pathForResource not getting called

I have a video background for the welcome screen of the app but when I run only a blank screen appears.

The string for the bundle path for resource part is perfectly correct so a typo isn't the problem or anything. When I put a breakpoint on the "if path" block though it isn't getting called. This is in view did load and "AVKit" and "AVFoundation" are both imported and there are no errors.

Any insights? Thanks!

    let moviePath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Ilmatic_Wearables", ofType: "mp4")

    if let path = moviePath {

        let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path)
        let player = AVPlayer(URL: url)
        let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
        playerViewController.player = player
        playerViewController.view.frame = self.view.bounds
        self.view.addSubview(playerViewController.view)
        self.addChildViewController(playerViewController)
        player.play()
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (2)

Brandon Nott
Brandon Nott

Reputation: 546

EDIT (11/13/2015) - Try this:

Right Click, delete the video file from your project navigator, select move to trash.

Then drag the video from finder back into your project navigator.

When choosing options for adding these files:

  • check Copy items if needed
  • check add to targets

Rebuild your project, see if it works now!

I have included sample code that works for me:

import AVFoundation
import AVKit

class ExampleViewController: UIViewController {
    
    func loadAndPlayFile() {
        
        guard let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("filename", ofType: "mp4") else {
            print("Error: Could not locate video resource")
            return
        }
        
        let url = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: path)
        let moviePlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)
        let moviePlayerController = AVPlayerViewController()
        moviePlayerController.player = moviePlayer
        
        presentViewController(moviePlayerController, animated: true) {
            moviePlayerController.player?.play()
        }
    }
    
    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        loadAndPlayFile()
    }
}

/edit

Check to see if the video file plays in iTunes. If it plays in iTunes, it should also play on the iOS simulator and on a device.

If it doesn't play in iTunes, but does work with VLC Media Player, Quicktime, etc. It need to be re-encoded.

iOS supports many industry-standard video formats and compression standards, including the following:

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats Numerous audio formats, including the ones listed in Audio Technologies

Upvotes: 0

nsinvocation
nsinvocation

Reputation: 7637

Weird, your code should work if moviePath isn't nil as you are saying. Check this way:

if let moviePath != nil {
       ...
}

Update

Check if your video file's Target Membership is set

Upvotes: 1

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