iOS 10 AVPlayer will not stream video from URL with no extension and with video/mp4 as content type

Question

Currently, we are using a standard AVPlayer via AVPlayerViewController to play video. We are streaming video from a url in the format https://ourdo

Answer 1

AVURLAsset is require a file extension to work. unfortunately there are already some radars open for the same issue from iOS 5 but it seems even it is not updated on iOS 10.

Radar links:

AVURLAsset should not require a file extension to work

AVURLAsset should not require a file extension to work

WorkAround / Hack:

Cycle through the playable MIME types and create a symbolic links to the actual file with the extension and check if they are playable.

Note:

• Symbolic Link will be deleted when the app entered into background
• To Create symbolic link check this SO answers