How do I intercept tapping of the done button in AVPlayerViewController?

Question

I created an AVPlayerViewController and an attached AVPlayer in the viewDidAppear method of a custom UIViewController. Ho

Answer 1

Since there don't seem to be any perfect answers here, a workaround you can use for some situations is to monitor whether the AVPlayer is still playing and set an observer in case it closes automatically after being played all the way through.

  var player:AVPlayer = AVPlayer()
  var videoPlayTimer:NSTimer = NSTimer()

  func playVideo(action: UIAlertAction)  -> Void {

    player = AVPlayer(URL: NSURL(fileURLWithPath: myFilePath))
    player.actionAtItemEnd = .None

    let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
    playerController.player = player
    self.presentViewController(playerController, animated: true) {      
      self.player.play()
      self.monitorVideoPlayStatus()
      NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: #selector(MyViewController.onVideoEnd(_:)), name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: self.player.currentItem)
    }
  }

  //setting a timer to monitor video play status in case it is closed by user
  func monitorVideoPlayStatus(){
    if ((player.rate != 0) && (player.error == nil)) {
      NSLog("player is playing")
      videoPlayTimer = NSTimer.after(0.5, monitorVideoPlayStatus)
    } else {
      NSLog("player is NOT playing")
      onVideoEnd()
    }
  }

  //will be called when video plays all the way through
  func onVideoEnd(note: NSNotification){
    NSLog("onVideoEnd")
    onVideoEnd()

    //canceling video play monitor
    videoPlayTimer.invalidate()
  }

  func onVideoEnd(){
    NSLog("finished playing video")
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification, object: nil)

    //*******
    //DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AFTER VIDEO HAS ENDED RIGHT HERE
    //*******
  }