tvOS: How to avoid seeking forward

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Created Jun ’20

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Due to legal restrictions I need to avoid that the users of my App can seek forward a playing content in AVPlayerViewController.

The only way to do this that I found has been setting the property requiresLinearPlayback to true in my instance of AVPlayerViewController.

Sadly, apart from seeking forward, using this property also limit seeking backwards.

Is there a way to limit seeking forward in AVPlayerViewController, but still allowing seeking backwards?

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Media Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’20

Check out the AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate methods; you can redirect forward seeks to the current ("from") time, which effectively blocks the seek. There's no way to disable the skipping hint ("+10>") from appearing, however, and while this can also block forward scrubs, chapter navigation, and Siri skipping commands, the user won't know until they try.

You should use the Feedback Assistant to file an enhancement request, explaining that you need this due to legal restrictions, if you haven't already.

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