How to Play Video in Swift

Ranjit Kumar

28 May 2021

In today’s blog we will know how we can play a video in swift

This is the easiest way to play video in swift,

You can play a video from url or you can play a video from your project

Let’s code to play a video in your project

Step: 1

You need to create an Xcode project

Step: 2

Create a button to play video in the main.storyboard

Step: 3

Add a video in your project or you can play video from url

Step: 4

Lets’s move to view controller

Add AVFoundation fremwork in you controller

let’s know more about AVFoundation

AVFoundation is the full featured framework for working with time-based audiovisual media on iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Using AVFoundation, you can easily play, create, and edit QuickTime movies and MPEG-4 files, play HLS streams, and build powerful media functionality into your apps.

import AVFoundation

1	import AVFoundation

Step: 5

We need to add the property of the AVFoundation

 var playerAV: AVPlayer!

1	var playerAV: AVPlayer!

Step: 6

Create a function and add the video player in the your view controller

func playvideo(videourl: String) {
        
        guard let firstVideo = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "video", ofType:"mp4") else {
                    debugPrint("Video not found")
                        return
                    }
        if videourl == nil{
            playerAV = AVPlayer(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: firstVideo))
        }else{
            let videoURL = URL(string: videourl)
            playerAV = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
        }

     let playerLayerAV = AVPlayerLayer(player: playerAV)
        playerLayerAV.frame = self.view.bounds
        self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayerAV)
        playerLayerAV.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
        playerAV.play()

        // you can fatch when video ended
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
                                               selector: #selector(animationDidFinish(_:)),
                                               name: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
                                               object: playerAV.currentItem)
        
    }

func playvideo(videourl: String) {

guard let firstVideo = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "video", ofType:"mp4") else {

debugPrint("Video not found")

return

}

if videourl == nil{

playerAV = AVPlayer(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: firstVideo))

}else{

let videoURL = URL(string: videourl)

playerAV = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)

}

let playerLayerAV = AVPlayerLayer(player: playerAV)

playerLayerAV.frame = self.view.bounds

self.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayerAV)

playerLayerAV.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill

playerAV.play()

// you can fatch when video ended

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,

selector: #selector(animationDidFinish(_:)),

name: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,

object: playerAV.currentItem)

}

Step: 7

Call the above function from the button

@IBAction func playvideo(sender: AnyObject) {
        self.playvideo(videourl: "Your video link")
        }

@IBAction func playvideo(sender: AnyObject) {

self.playvideo(videourl: "Your video link")

}

Step: 8

You can do what you want to do after video ended.

@objc func animationDidFinish(_ notification: NSNotification) {
        playerAV.seek(to: .zero)
        playerAV.play()
        playerAV.pause()
        print(#function)
    }

@objc func animationDidFinish(_ notification: NSNotification) {

playerAV.seek(to: .zero)

playerAV.play()

playerAV.pause()

print(#function)

}

Now you can run the above code and you can now play video in your project

Thanks for reading 🙂

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