Timestamps in AVPlayer

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Created Sep ’23

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I want to show the user actual start and end dates of the video played on the AVPlayer time slider, instead of the video duration data.

I would like to show something like this: 09:00:00 ... 12:00:00 (which indicates that the video started at 09:00:00 CET and ended at 12:00:00 CET), instead of: 00:00:00 ... 02:59:59.

I would appreciate any pointers to this direction.

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tomas.bek OP

Sep ’23

As an additional background, I use a m3u8 file, which contains the following metadata.

#EXT-X-VERSION:5
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="Original Audio",LANGUAGE="qag",AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio-13-64000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls",DEFAULT=YES
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="Original Audio 1",LANGUAGE="qaf",AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio-12-64000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=388328,RESOLUTION=426x240,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
300/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=388328,RESOLUTION=426x240,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f",URI="300/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=694928,RESOLUTION=640x360,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
600/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=694928,RESOLUTION=640x360,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f",URI="600/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1001528,RESOLUTION=854x480,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
900/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1001528,RESOLUTION=854x480,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f",URI="900/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1308128,RESOLUTION=1024x576,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
1200/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1308128,RESOLUTION=1024x576,CODECS="avc1.4dc01f",URI="1200/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2125728,RESOLUTION=1280x720,CODECS="avc1.640029,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
2000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2125728,RESOLUTION=1280x720,CODECS="avc1.640029",URI="2000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=4169728,RESOLUTION=1920x1080,CODECS="avc1.640029,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="audio"
4000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls
#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=4169728,RESOLUTION=1920x1080,CODECS="avc1.640029",URI="4000/prog_index.m3u8?start=2023-03-01T10%3A29%3A04%2B0000&end=2023-03-01T11%3A09%3A18%2B0000&sourcetimestamps=1&returnType=hls&keyframes=1"

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