ios avplayer trigger streaming is out of buffer

Question

I want to reconnect to the server when the streaming buffer is empty.

How can I trigger a method when the AVPlayer or AVPlayerItem buffer i

Answer 1

You will need to drop down into Core Audio and CFReadStream to do this. WIth CFReadStream, you can provide a callback that gets called on certain stream events like end encountered, read error, etc. From there you can trigger a reconnect to the server. If you're consuming an HTTP stream, you can add the range header to the HTTP request so you can tell the server to send the stream from a point you specify (which would be the last byte you received before + 1).