AVPlayerItem videoComposition freeze IOS8

Question

I am playing a AVMutableVideoComposition with AVPlayer and since IOS8 everything was perfectly fine. But now the video start playing and after 4 or 5 seconds it stop ,like buffering or something like that, the sound keeps playing and when the video ends the AVPlayer loops and play it fine without stops.

I have no clue for fixing this issue.

Any help would be appreciate,

Thank you

Answer 1

I had a same issue, but I got the solution.

You should play after playerItem's status is changed to .ReadyToPlay.

I also answered here, that issue is similar to your issue.

Please see as below.

func startVideoPlayer() {
    let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: self.composition!)
    playerItem.videoComposition = self.videoComposition!

    let player = AVPlayer(playerItem: playerItem)
    player.actionAtItemEnd = .None

    videoPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
    videoPlayerLayer!.frame = self.bounds

    /* add playerItem's observer */
    player.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "player.currentItem.status", options: .New, context: nil)

    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "playerItemDidReachEnd:", name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: playerItem);

    self.layer.addSublayer(videoPlayerLayer!)
}

override func observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath: String?, ofObject object: AnyObject?, change: [String : AnyObject]?, context: UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) {
    if keyPath != nil && keyPath! == "player.currentItem.status" {
        if let newValue = change?[NSKeyValueChangeNewKey] {
            if AVPlayerStatus(rawValue: newValue as! Int) == .ReadyToPlay {
                playVideo() /* play after status is changed to .ReadyToPlay */
            }
        }
    } else {
        super.observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath, ofObject: object, change: change, context: context)
    }
}    

func playerItemDidReachEnd(notification: NSNotification) {
    let playerItem = notification.object as! AVPlayerItem
    playerItem.seekToTime(kCMTimeZero)

    playVideo()
} 

func playVideo() {
    videoPlayerLayer?.player!.play()
}