AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate methods not working on device

Question

I have been working on a simple AVPlayer to play encrypted HLS media.

I am using the AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate to handle t

Answer 1

If you take a look on Apple example code where they show bipbop.m3u8 HLS playback you will see that they are using masks for real http requests: "http:/host/bipbop.m3u8" => "custom_scheme:/host/bipbop.m3u8" Same trick should be made with playlist subresources.

Otherwise avplayer ignores AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate and load data directly.

You need to implement some kind of mapping:

NSString* videoUrl = @"fake_scheme://host/video.m3u8";
NSURL *streamURL = [NSURL URLWithString:videoUrl];