AVPlayer layer not showing video content sometimes

Question

AVPlayer layer not showing video content sometimes but plays audio. This happens some times not each time Here is my lines of code :

 override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.tempVideoPath = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory()).appendingPathComponent("tmpMov.mov")
        self.player = AVPlayer(url: self.tempVideoPath!)
}

 override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
     super.viewDidAppear(animated)
     self.playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: self.player)
     self.playerLayer?.frame = self.videoPlayer.bounds
     self.playerLayer?.backgroundColor = UIColor.yellow.cgColor
     self.videoPlayer.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer!)
     print("player = \(playerLayer?.bounds)")

 }

Help me to solve this issue.

`self.player` is not initialized. Or it is at some other place? — PrafulD, Nov 28 '16 at 11:59
check this ... may be helpful to you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22149931/avplayer-doesnt-show-anything — Bhavin Bhadani, Nov 28 '16 at 12:09
@PayalManiyar, If the suggestion from El Captain won't work. Can you post more of your code? — PrafulD, Nov 28 '16 at 12:12
What is your URL ? Please post some more code related to initialisation. — Wolverine, Nov 28 '16 at 12:38
if `self.tempVideoPath` is nil. Then also you will not able to the video. check with this path 'http://rmcdn.2mdn.net/Demo/html5/output.mp4' — PrafulD, Nov 28 '16 at 13:02
check self.tempVideoPath and self.player are not nil. Also check your.mov file is proper. — Wolverine, Nov 29 '16 at 04:52
It plays audio of video so it is not possible that file is not at given path. — Payal Maniyar, Nov 29 '16 at 06:14
any other solution is there? @PrafulD,@Wolverine,@EI Captain v2.0 — Payal Maniyar, Nov 29 '16 at 06:40
@PayalManiyar have you found solution? I'm having the same issue. — zvjerka24, Jun 13 '17 at 14:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '18 at 07:06

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the problem with you code is that the bounds of videoPlayer can change. So you need to add the following code to your view controller to change AVPlayerLayer's frame accordingly:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

    playerLayer?.frame = view.bounds
}

Hope it helps.

answered Dec 26 '18 at 07:06

jajo

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Thanks this was the missing piece I was looking for. If the audio for your video is playing but the video is not showing this helps. – Mark Thomas Jan 06 '23 at 01:06

AVPlayer layer not showing video content sometimes

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