Implementation of HTTP Live Streaming in iOS

Question

I want to write a little iOS video client and have to use HTTP Live Streaming. The videos come from a Wowza Media Server which supports HTTP Live Streaming, so the server-si

Answer 1

Below is my Swift 4 solution with AVPlayer

[since MPMoviePlayerController is deprecated in iOS 9]

import UIKit
import AVKit
...

class VideoPlayerViewController: UIViewController {

    var player: AVPlayer?

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        guard let url = URL(string: "http://stream-url.com/file.m3u8") else {
            print("Umm, looks like an invalid URL!")
            return
        }

        player = AVPlayer(url: url)
        let controller = AVPlayerViewController()
        controller.delegate = self
        controller.player = player

        // present the player controller & play
        present(controller, animated: true) {
            self.player?.play()
        }
    }

}