How to stop a video in AVPlayer?

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iTag picture iTag · Jul 24, 2013 · Viewed 38.9k times · Source

I am using this code to play video file using avplayer how do I stop it

 [videoView setHidden:NO];
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *path2 = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:saveFileName];
    NSURL *url1 = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath: path2];
    videoPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:url1] ;
    self.avPlayerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:videoPlayer];

    //[self willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation];
    avPlayerLayer.frame = videoView.bounds;
    [self.videoView.layer addSublayer: avPlayerLayer];

    [self.videoPlayer play];

I tried this it doesn't work

    //[self.videoPlayer release];

Answer

Samet DEDE picture Samet DEDE · Jul 24, 2013

AVPlayer does not have a method named stop. You can pause or set rate to 0.0.

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