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Disable time seek in AVPlayer

I am using the AVPlayer for playing very short videos in tvOS. At the moment, when I touch the remote, the timeline of the videos shows up and I am able to fast forward and backward. Is there a way to completely disable this, i.e. force the user to see the clip from beginning to end without being able to forward/backward/pause/...?

Solution

  • Found an easy solution for the problem: from the AVPlayerViewController, one can set the property showsPlaybackControls to false. So for example in the constructor:

    class PlayerViewController: AVPlayerViewController, AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.showsPlaybackControls = false
    }
}

    Then the controls don't appear anymore and forward/backward/play/pause don't work anymore as well.