AVPlayer keeps running in background

Question

I am using AVPlayer to play online movie. It is working fine. Now the problem is, when I pop out from the view before the movie starts playing, the background process keeps running. And when the movie gets loaded, it starts playing in background.

I tried to release the player in viewWillDisappear. But its not working.

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    if (self.player.currentItem.status != AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay) 
    {
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kRateKey];
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kStatusKey];
        [self.player.currentItem removeObserver:self forKeyPath:kTimedMetadataKey];
    }
    [self.player pause];
    [self.player release];
    [self.playerLayerView release];

    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}

Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance

did you retain player object anywhere, because after releasing it will still be there, so you need to check retain count of player object — jigneshbrahmkhatri, Jul 04 '11 at 09:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 12:56

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This might help..

    if (self.player.currentItem.playbackLikelyToKeepUp == 1 ) {

    NSLog(@"Ready To Play");
    [self.player play];


    }else{

    NSLog(@" Show HUD Buffering...");

    [self.player pause];

    }

answered Apr 10 '13 at 12:56

Rahim Jan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '11 at 09:18

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- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
        if (self.player.playing==YES) {
            [self.player stop];
            self.player=nil;
        }
    }

answered Jul 04 '11 at 09:18

Rakesh Bhatt

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This is valid only when video has started playing. I face this problem when video is not ready to play and thread is working in background. I want to stop this thread. – Nir Jul 05 '11 at 04:50
Why would you want to destroy your player in this method? If another view is presented or pushed on top and you go back to this view, you won't have a player anymore. – Stephen Paul Jun 16 '16 at 07:07

AVPlayer keeps running in background

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