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htan
htan

Reputation: 333

Airplay stop playing video streaming when app is in background or device locked

I'am using an AVPlayerViewController for playing video in streaming.

When I launch Airplay on the AVPlayerViewController on the Apple TV and put the app in background or if I lock the device, the video paused on the Apple TV.

I verify that like in this post [https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1668/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010209][1]

I had check the background audio, airplay mode My audio Session is started and active in AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback My AVPlayer is in playing mode when I go in background or if I lock the device

I read the 'Special Considerations for Video Media' paragraph of this post [https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1668/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010209][1], but they don't spoke about the AVPlayerViewController.

I understand that video is not one of the possible background mode capabilities but Airplay is.

So do you have any way to have the video stream audio/image playing with the app' in background or device locked using the AVPlayerViewController ?

Thank you in advance for your advices or any technical link that I would have missed.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2596

Answers (1)

skymook
skymook

Reputation: 3676

Xcode 13

All I had to do was enable background mode Audio, Airplay, and Picture in Picture. To do this, just select your target, add background modes and tick the checkbox for Audio, Airplay, and Picture in Picture.

Then set the category of the AV session. I did this just before the video played.

let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
do {
    try audioSession.setCategory(.playback)
} catch {
    print("Setting category to AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback failed.")
}

It then supported playing video over airplay while the device is locked. I was using an AVPlayerViewController.

Upvotes: 2

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