How to Play Video from Within Collapsible UITableViewCell?

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HI All: I have set up collapsible uitableviewcells and am trying to get video to play in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method. I can get cells to fire a print statement to the console, but no matter what I try to get a video to play nothing works! Here is the code:

    - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
   [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];

    if(indexPath.section == 0)
    {
        if(indexPath.row == 0)
        {
            printf("hello");
        }
        else
        {
        printf("good bye");
        }
    }
    else if(indexPath.section == 1)
    {
        if(indexPath.row == 0)
        {
            printf("hello");
        }
        else
        {
            printf("good bye again");
        }
    }
}

Can you please let me know what I need to do to get a local video file to play? Obviously I need help in Objective C please! I have tried to programmatically create an AVPlayerViewController and then use [self presentviewcontroller] method but I always get the following error (which is same error if I use prepareforSegue):

  NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PrelimFig1" ofType:@"m4v"];
        _videoURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
        NSLog(@"I want to log: %@", _videoURL);
        AVPlayerViewController *avp = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
        AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:_videoURL];
        avp.player = player;

        [self presentViewController:avp animated:YES completion:nil]
        [player play];

Thank you in advance for your help!

[MediaRemote] [AVOutputContext] WARNING: AVF context unavailable for +[MRAVOutputContext sharedAudioPresentationContext]_block_invoke (lldb) — MFAZ, May 16 '18 at 03:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 04:07

You can do like that

   NSURL *videoURLLocal = [[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:@"PrelimFig1" withExtension:@"m4v"];


    AVPlayerViewController *avp = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
    AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURLLocal];
    avp.player = player;
    [self presentViewController:avp animated:YES completion:^{
        [player play];
    }];

or

       NSURL *videoURLLocal = [[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:@"PrelimFig1" withExtension:@"m4v"];

    // create an AVPlayer
    AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURLLocal];

    // create a player view controller
    AVPlayerViewController *controller = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
    controller.player = player;
    [player play];

    // show the view controller
    [self addChildViewController:controller];
    [self.view addSubview:controller.view];
    controller.view.frame = self.view.frame;

All of a sudden it is working - thank you so much @abdelahad! — MFAZ, May 16 '18 at 04:14
It is so nice when experienced people like yourself take the time to help those of us that need it - again many thanks! — MFAZ, May 16 '18 at 04:28

How to Play Video from Within Collapsible UITableViewCell?

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