Airplay stop playing video streaming when app is in background or device locked

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nathshift OP

Created Mar ’20

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Hello everyone,

I'am using an AVPlayerViewController for playing video in streaming.

When I launch Airplay on the AVPlayerViewController on the Apple TV and put the app in background or if I lock the device, the video paused on the Apple TV.

I verify that like in this post https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1668/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010209

I had check the background audio, airplay mode
My audio Session is started and active in AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
My AVPlayer is in playing mode when I go in background or if I lock the device

I read the 'Special Considerations for Video Media' paragraph of this post https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1668/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010209,

but they don't spoke about the AVPlayerViewController.

I understdand that video is not one of the possible background mode capabilities but Airplay is.

So do you have any way to have the video stream audio/image playing with the app' in background or device locked using the AVPlayerViewController ?

Thank you in advance for your advices or any technical link that I would have missed.

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Answer 1

Yashas@08 OP

Mar ’20

So nathshift it can be a technical error or some problem would have occured but it should be investigated more...

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Answer 2

nathshift OP

Mar ’20

Hello,

Thank you for your contribution.

Sadly there is no error detected by listening abvout AVPlayerItemNewErrorLogEntryNotification, AVPlayerItemPlaybackStalledNotification...

This problem is systematic and not drived by a network latency or something like that.

Any other idea ?

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