How to play movie files with no file extension on iOS with MPMoviePlayerController or AVPlayer?

Question

I want to play a movie in iOS 4.3 on the iPad. I\'ve successfully used MPMoviePlayerController and AVPlayer to load files from a remote URL when the filename has a file exte

Answer 1

Finally, I found the answer.

You should use AVURLAsset (the subclass of AVAsset) and set the MIMEType in the options input :

let mimeType = "video/mp4; codecs=\"avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2\""
let urlAsset = AVURLAsset(url: url, options["AVURLAssetOutOfBandMIMETypeKey": mimeType])

Source -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/54087143/6736184