Looping AVPlayer seamlessly

Question

There has been some discussion before about how to loop an AVPlayer\'s video item, but no \'solution\' is seamless enough to provide lag-less l

Answer 1

I had the same problem when streaming a video. After playing for the first time, there was a black screen when loading the video for second time. I got rid of the black screen by seeking video to 5ms ahead. It made nearly a seamless video loop. (Swift 2.1)

// Create player here..
let player = AVPlayer(URL: videoURL)

// Add notification block
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserverForName(AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: player.currentItem, queue: nil)
{ notification in
   let t1 = CMTimeMake(5, 100);
   player.seekToTime(t1)
   player.play()
}