I have implemented player AVPlayerViewController on tvOS using AVQueuePlayer. The playback of videos works as expected but on all videos following the first the scrubber / time slider shows thumbnails for the first video.
The player is being setup using the following code:
class TFLPlayerController: AVPlayerViewController, AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate {
var queuePlayer = AVQueuePlayer()
...
func addVideoToQueue(video: Video, after: AVPlayerItem?){
let mainVideo = AVPlayerItem(URL: NSURL(string: videoURL)!)
self.queuePlayer.insertItem(mainVideo, afterItem: nil)
}
func readyToPlay() {
self.addVideoToQueue(videoRecord, after: nil)
self.player = self.queuePlayer
if let currentItem = queuePlayer.currentItem {
// Set time to get make a call to the API for the next video
let callUpNextAPITime = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(0.5, currentItem.asset.duration.timescale)
let callUpNextAPITimeValue = NSValue(CMTime: callUpNextAPITime)
let getUpNextObserver = queuePlayer.addBoundaryTimeObserverForTimes([callUpNextAPITimeValue], queue: dispatch_get_main_queue(), usingBlock: { () -> Void in
self.getUpNext()
})
}
self.player?.play()
}
func getUpNext(){
// Get the next video to play
let playlistId = presentingPlaylist?.identifier ?? nil
if let currentItem = self.queuePlayer.currentItem {
// Get the current items id
let currentVideoId = itemVideo[currentItem]?.identifier
if let currentVideoId = currentVideoId {
// Call API to get the next video to be played from the server
dataLayer.getNextVideo(currentVideoId, playlistIdentifier: playlistId) {
video, error in
...
if let nextVideo = video {
let currentVideo: AVPlayerItem = self.queuePlayer.currentItem!
self.addVideoToQueue(nextVideo, after: currentVideo)
}
}
}
}
}
I have also instantiated the AVQueuePlayer using the code below as I thought there might be an issue with the initial queue setup but the issue remain: AVQueuePlayer(playerItem: mainVideo)
