Unable to play .mp4 video file using AVPlayer

Question

I am using the AVPlayer to play the video from url.

func playVideoFromUrl(urlString: String){

        let videoURL = URL(string: urlString)
        let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
        let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
        playerViewController.player = player

        let delegate : AppDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
        delegate.window?.rootViewController?.present(playerViewController, animated: true) {
            playerViewController.player!.play()
        }
    }

The url of video:- "http://gsn-input-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/public/video/00229/9229d4ad2a0c547e7bfa51e3fbef806f.mp4"

I am not getting any warning at console. Below is the screenshot of simulator. What I am doing wrong?

Video is playing, I just checked it. There is no issue. – Jitendra Modi Sep 11 '17 at 05:23 — Jitendra Modi, Sep 11 '17 at 05:23

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '17 at 06:43

I have accomplished what you've wanted to do. Here is my approach: First import AVFoundation, AVKit(I believe you had) then I have configured my viewcontroller like this

   @IBOutlet weak var avPlayerView: UIView! // drag a UIView to view controller
   var videoPlayer = AVPlayer()
   var avPlayerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()

   override func viewDidLoad() {
     super.viewDidLoad()

     let videoURL = URL(string: "http://gsn-input-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/public/video/00229/9229d4ad2a0c547e7bfa51e3fbef806f.mp4")

    self.playVideo(url: videoURL!)

}

playVideo function is configured like below

  func playVideo(url: URL) {
       self.videoPlayer = AVPlayer(url: url)
       self.avPlayerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
       self.avPlayerViewController.player = self.videoPlayer
       avPlayerViewController.view.frame = avPlayerView.frame
       self.addChildViewController(avPlayerViewController)
       self.view.addSubview((avPlayerViewController.view)!)

   }

Open your info.plist as Source Code

then add this to info.plist

   <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

screen shot is given below

I really appreciate your hard work. Please accept my up vote. Thanks! — pkc456, Oct 09 '17 at 07:15
Just add an "s" and use https to avoid all that NSAppTransportSecurity as it's not recommended to set that to NSAllowsArbitraryLoads. — Groot, May 06 '21 at 13:38

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '17 at 05:45

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Have you tried adding arbitrary load flag in your info.plist file as i see the url is a HTTP url and to make the HTTP url work, we need to specify it in app transportation security via info.plist as follows

Please try doing this as video is working perfectly fine with you code.

Read following document for more info on App Transportation Security

I hope this will help you :)

answered Sep 11 '17 at 05:45

iOS_MIB

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I still have same issue, even after making these changes. – Muhammad Haroon Iqbal Nov 19 '19 at 12:38

Miguel Tepale · Answer 3 · 2020-12-16T16:03:31.963

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I recently found out that a device running iOS 14 using AVPlayer cannot play .mp4 files. A compatible video format that works on AVPlayer is .mov.

edited Dec 16 '20 at 16:03

answered Dec 16 '20 at 15:54

Miguel Tepale

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 11 '22 at 19:56

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I also have had a trouble playing .mp4 files. When I made the URL end with .mp4 it works.

answered Nov 11 '22 at 19:56

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Unable to play .mp4 video file using AVPlayer

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