iOS 6 streaming player com.apple.coremedia.networkbuffering bug

Question

I'm having trouble on make my app(music and video stream player) running on iOS 6 simulator.

When I start a music ou video it crashes showing an error on this thread: com.apple.coremedia.networkbuffering

and this on log info:

2012-09-13 17:45:09.260 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Disabling autoplay for pause
2012-09-13 17:45:09.260 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Disabling autoplay
2012-09-13 17:45:09.305 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Enabling autoplay
2012-09-13 17:45:09.307 app[32563:c07] handlePlaybackNowPlayingNotification
2012-09-13 17:45:09.308 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Likely to keep up or full buffer: 0
2012-09-13 17:45:09.308 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Skipping autoplay, not enough buffered to keep up.
2012-09-13 17:45:09.318 app[32563:c07] [MPAVController] Autoplay: Enabling autoplay
2012-09-13 17:45:09.320 app[32563:c07] [MPCloudAssetDownloadController] Prioritization requested for media item ID: 0

I'm using MPMoviePlayerController with http based stream, and it works fine on iOS 4 or iOS 5

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem...

try to do this just after you instantiate your player:

[player prepareToPlay];

It should be called automatically when you call play but apparently on iOS 6 something goes wrong if you don't call it explicitly.

In my case it solved the problem.