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Integrate AVPlayer

Installing MLYSDK

  • Installing with CocoaPods
    To install with CocoaPods, modify your Podfile to use frameworks by including use_frameworks! and then add the following pods to your Podfile:
pod 'MLYSDK',:git => 'https://github.com/mlytics/mly-stream-sdk-ios-avplayer.git'

Initialize the driver for your AVPlayer instance

Get your client_id from the stream Code Snippet.

To initialize SDK, we need to call MLYDriver.initialize first. Here's an example showing how you could initialize SDK.

do {
    try MLYDriver.initialize { options in
        options.client.id = "{CLIENT_ID}" 
    }
} catch {
    print(error)
}

[MLYDriver initializeAndReturnError:  &error :^(MLYDriverOptions * option) {
  [[option client] setId:@"{CLIENT_ID}"];
}];

Setup your AVPlayer And AVPlayerViewController

Create an AVPlayer instance and add it to your view controller's view.

var player = AVPlayer()
var playerViewController = {
    let controller = AVPlayerViewController()
    controller.showsPlaybackControls = true
    controller.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    controller.view.backgroundColor = .darkGray
    controller.player = player
    return controller
}()

AVPlayer player = [[AVPlayer alloc] init];
AVPlayerViewController playerController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
playerController.showsPlaybackControls = true;
playerController.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor;
playerController.player = player;

Configure SDK Adapter

In order to use SDK to download the video, we need to configure the SDK Adapter by passing your PlayerViewController instance. Here's an example showing how you could configure SDK Adapter.

var plugin = MLYAVPlayerPlugin()

plugin.adapt(playerViewController)

MLYAVPlayerPlugin plugin = [MLYAVPlayerPlugin alloc];

[plugin adapt:playerController];

Start playing the media

To play the media, call the play() method on the AVPlayer instance.

let url = URL(string: "https://your.video.website.com/your_video.m3u8")!
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: url)
player.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
player.play()

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://your.video.website.com/your_video.m3u8"];
AVPlayerItem *item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:url];
[player replaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem:item];
[player play];

Full example

Updated 9 months ago