what is the best way to play and setup controls for video (like play, pause, stop, volume and seek bar) on xamarin.ios

Question

what is the best way to play and set up controls for video (like play, pause, stop, volume and seek bar) on xamarin.ios.

Answer 1

Actually , there are lots of solutions which can implement it . Like MPMoviePlayerController，MPMoviePlayerViewController，AVPlayer，AVPlayerViewController...

Note: MPMoviePlayerController and MPMoviePlayerViewController are obsolete after iOS 9.0 .

The following code are the basic usage of AVPlayer

in the method ViewDidLoad

        //Set the local movie file path
        //string moviePath = NSBundle.MainBundle.PathForResource("xxx", "mp4");
        //NSUrl movieUrl = NSUrl.FromFilename(moviePath);

        //set remote url path
        NSUrl movieUrl = new NSUrl("https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4");



        //Using AVPlayer(using AVFoundation)
        AVPlayer avPlayer;
        AVPlayerLayer playerLayer;
        AVAsset asset;
        AVPlayerItem playerItem;
        asset = AVAsset.FromUrl(movieUrl);
        playerItem = new AVPlayerItem(asset);
        avPlayer = new AVPlayer(playerItem);
        playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer.FromPlayer(avPlayer);
        playerLayer.Frame = new CGRect(50, 300, 200, 200);
        View.Layer.AddSublayer(playerLayer);
        avPlayer.Play();

        // you can add button and slider to control the play, pause , seek and volume
        avPlayer.Pause();
        avPlayer.Seek();
        avPlayer.Volume = xxx;

In this way , you need to define the UI of Control Element by yourself.

If the url is always remote , we can also open the url in WKWebView . It had implemented pause and seek function in default .

       //set remote url path
        NSUrl movieUrl = new NSUrl("https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4");


        var webView = new WKWebView(View.Frame, new WKWebViewConfiguration());
        Add(webView);
        
        using (var request = NSUrlRequest.FromUrl(movieUrl))
        {
            webView.LoadRequest(request);
        }