AVPlayer Go To Live?

Question

I am using an AVPlayer object to play a live stream of an MP3, just using an HTTP link.

As with normal live video playing in iOS, there is a button that you can press to skip to live.

Is it possible to do this with AVPlayer?

E.g I am listening live, pause, then after however long play again. It continues from where I left it. But what if I want to skip to live?

Answer 1

I had the same need and made this extension to AVPlayer:

extension AVPlayer {
    func seekToLive() {
        if let items = currentItem?.seekableTimeRanges, !items.isEmpty {
            let range = items[items.count - 1]
            let timeRange = range.timeRangeValue
            let startSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.start)
            let durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.duration)

            seek(to: CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(startSeconds + durationSeconds, 1))
        }
    }
}