Replay items in AVQueuePlayer after last

Question

I need to create something like an infinite loop in my AVQueuePlayer. Especially, I want to replay the whole NSArray of AVPlayerItems once the last component finishes playing.

I must admit that I actually do not have any idea how to achieve this and hope you can give me some clues.

Answer 1

best way to loop a sequence of videos in AVQueuePlayer.

observe for each playeritem in AVQueuePlayer.

queuePlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone;
for(AVPlayerItem *item in items) {
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
            selector:@selector(nextVideo:) 
            name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification 
            object:item ];
}

on each nextVideo insert the currentItem again to queue it for playback. make sure to seek to zero for each item. after advanceToNextItem the AVQueuePlayer will remove the currentItem from queue.

-(void) nextVideo:(NSNotification*)notif {
    AVPlayerItem *currItem = notif.userInfo[@"object"];
    [currItem seekToTime:kCMTimeZero];
    [queuePlayer advanceToNextItem];
    [queuePlayer insertItem:currItem afterItem:nil];
}