How to hide video window after it ends and show it again later in iOS Swift?

Question

Maybe a stupid question, but I'm pretty new to Swift and iOS development all together.

I need to play a video on demand, there's a button on the screen that says "PLAY", once you hit that, you play the video, the problem is that the video stays there, on top of everything after being done, so I use this code to hide it:

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "hideVideo:", name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: nil)
...
func hideVideo(notification: NSNotification) {
    playerController.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil)
}

That hides the video, which is great, but then after trying to play the video again all I get is sound and the video window never comes up.

So my question is, how can I UNdismiss the view controller after it being dismissed?

Here's the code that plays the video for the first and subsequent times:

private func playVideo() {
    if playerController.isViewLoaded() { // ALL TIMES AFTER THAT IT SHOULD GO HERE
        //create a CMTime for zero seconds so we can go back to the beginning
        let seconds : Int64 = 0
        let preferredTimeScale : Int32 = 1
        let seekTime : CMTime = CMTimeMake(seconds, preferredTimeScale)

        self.player.seekToTime(seekTime)

        self.player.play()
    }
    else { // FIRST TIME VIDEO PLAYS
        self.presentViewController(playerController, animated: false) {
            self.player.play()
        }
    }
}

Thanks for any help

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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OK, I figured it out.

With help from this question, I was able to figure out by not using an AVPlayerViewController but instead using an AVPlayerLayer which I can hide and show.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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How to hide video window after it ends and show it again later in iOS Swift?

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