AVPlayer keeps running in background

4
votes

I am using AVPlayer to play online movie. It is working fine. Now the problem is, when I pop out from the view before the movie starts playing, the background process keeps running. And when the movie gets loaded, it starts playing in background.

I tried to release the player in viewWillDisappear. But its not working.

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    if (self.player.currentItem.status != AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay) 
    {
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kRateKey];
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kStatusKey];
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kTimedMetadataKey];
    }
    [self.player pause];
    [self.player release];
    [self.playerLayerView release];

    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}

Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance

2
iphoneavplayer
did you retain player object anywhere, because after releasing it will still be there, so you need to check retain count of player object – iMOBDEV
Thanks for the suggestion. Will check that. – Nir

2 Answers

0
votes
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
        if (self.player.playing==YES) {
            [self.player stop];
            self.player=nil;
        }
    }
0
votes

This might help.. 

    if (self.player.currentItem.playbackLikelyToKeepUp == 1 ) {

    NSLog(@"Ready To Play");
    [self.player play];


    }else{

    NSLog(@" Show HUD Buffering...");

    [self.player pause];

    }