AVPlayerViewController full screen issue

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Created Jul ’15

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I am migrating from MPMoviePlayer to AVPlayer/AVPlayerViewController. Everything works fine, except that when I zoom to full screen via the on screen control, after the movie finished playing, the full screen mode does not go away. I am running this on iOS 9 beta 2.

Here's my code:

    AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:url];

    self.player = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];

    self.playerController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];

    self.playerController.player = self.player;

    self.playerController.view.frame = self.imageView.frame;

    [self.view addSubview:self.playerController.view];

    [self.player play];

    NSNotificationCenter *notificationCenter = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];

    [notificationCenter addObserver:self selector:@selector(stopVideo:) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:nil];

When the movie stop, I run the following stopVideo code:

    [self.player pause];

    [self.playerController.view removeFromSuperview];

When the movie stop, if the movie is not in full screen, the view will be removed. However, if the video is in full screen mode, the full screen mode stays and Done cannot work! Any solutions?

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Answer 1

6Be OP

Jul ’15

It does not seem possible without using private APIs on AVKit which is always tricky and risky.

When the `AVPlayerViewController` is in full screen it displays a private subclass `AVFullScreenViewController`. It can be dismissed by invoking the private method `exitFullScreenAnimated:completionHandler:`.

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Answer 2

limtc OP

Jul ’15

Not possible? 😕 Is it possible to play a video directly full screen (rather than zoom out by hand) and stop when done?

In the MPMoviePlayerController this is the current behavior, and we are supposed to replaced MPMoviePlayerController by AVPlayerViewController?

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Answer 3

6Be OP

Jul ’15

To my knowledge it is not possible to play full screen directly. It seems that AVPlayerViewController comes pretty much as is and does not offer much in the way of customization of UI or behavior. If you wanted to play full screen directly you would need to either present the controller containing your AVPlayerViewController modally in full screen or change the frame yourself to make it full screen. But there is no API to control full screen programmatically on AVPlayerViewController...

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