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Ruchi
Ruchi

Reputation: 441

AVPlayerViewController inside a view is not showing the playback controls

I am working with apple tv. I have a UIView inside my UIViewController. I am adding AVPlayerViewController as subview of my UIView. UIView's frame is CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 1344, height: 756). I am setting AVPlayerViewController frame equals to my UIView's frame.

Issue is that video plays fine in its frame but the controls like pause, play, forward etc. are hidden and not working. But when I set frame as CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 1920, height: 1080), controls are visible and working.

My code is as per below:

    let url = URL(string: "https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4")
    let item = AVPlayerItem(url: url!)        
    self.player = AVPlayer(playerItem: item)
    self.avplayerController = AVPlayerViewController()
    self.avplayerController.player = self.player
    self.avplayerController.view.frame = videoPreviewLayer.frame
    self.avplayerController.showsPlaybackControls = true
    self.avplayerController.requiresLinearPlayback = true

    self.addChildViewController(self.avplayerController)
    self.view.addSubview(self.avplayerController.view)

    self.avpController.player?.play()

Please help.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7947

Answers (3)

Ondrej Hanak
Ondrej Hanak

Reputation: 156

I had similar issue with missing controls. Same player component (custom view with controller.view as subview, among others) worked in one place, but not in the other in same app. None of them were fullscreen, none was adding controller as a child, only view. And still, one was showing controls, the other was not.

What eventually helped in my case, was calling beginAppearanceTransition(...) on player controller after adding its (sub)view. There was a change in iOS 16 related to it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller/1621387-beginappearancetransition

Upvotes: 1

Piyuesh
Piyuesh

Reputation: 1056

I managed to solve this using this code:

let player = AVPlayer(url: self.videoUrl!)
let avPlayerController = AVPlayerViewController()

avPlayerController.player = player;
avPlayerController.view.frame = self.videoPlayView.bounds;

self.addChildViewController(avPlayerController)
self.videoPlayView.addSubview(avPlayerController.view);

Now AVPlayerViewController shows most playback controls even as child to a uiview.

Courtesy: https://www.techotopia.com/index.php/IOS_8_Video_Playback_using_AVPlayer_and_AVPlayerViewController

Upvotes: 9

David Cordero
David Cordero

Reputation: 816

This is an expected behaviour:

AVPlayerViewController is designed such that when in full screen, the full playback experience (scrubbing, info panel access, etc) are all available. When in a space less than full screen, the assumption is that it is just one of several interactive elements on screen, and thus the view should not absorb all touch surface events as transport control.

You can read more about this on this thread: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/19526

Upvotes: 6

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