iOS: AVPlayer video preloading

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McDermott picture McDermott · Dec 2, 2011 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I am using AVPlayer to play videos. The lenght of them is short, 2-5 second. They are played in a random order. The problem is, when changing video, and a new video starts to play, the device lags for a very short time, but i wan't the change to be fluid. Is there a way to preload videos with AVPlayer?

Answer

Till picture Till · Dec 5, 2011

Try using AVQueuePlayer. I am assuming that what you described as a lag, in fact is the pre buffering delay. This should be minimized or actually entirely be gotten rid of when using AVQueuePlayer as that baby will buffer the next AVPlayerItem while playing the current one.

From the AVFoundation documentation:

On iOS 4.1 and later, you can use an AVQueuePlayer object to play a number of items in sequence (AVQueuePlayer is a subclass of AVPlayer).

Also see Mihai's answer on Pre-buffering-for-avqueueplayer.

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