Mute audio tracks of live streams using AVPlayer

Question

I am using AVPlayer to play live stream (m3U8 file). It plays perfectly using AVPlayer but I am not able to mute it.

I am using following code to mute the audio.

Answer 1

Your assumption is correct. You cannot mute a player that is playing an HTTP Live Stream. I have filed a RADAR on this.

In my app we control the streams, so we produced a stream with no audio, and an identical stream with audio, and switch between the 2 to turn on and off the sound. It's the best you can do.

The AVAudioMix solution doesn't work on live streams. I tried. Look at the note on the bottom that says it only works on file based assets: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1716/_index.html

It looks like Mac Developers get a mute property on their AVPlayer, but iOS doesn't have it yet.

For now, you will have to work around the problem in your streams, if you can.