Play Video like youtube in iOS 8

Question

I want to play my video just like youtube in iOS using objective C and video file come from a URL. Can anyone guide me how to do this or there is any way to do video buffering in an efficient way.

Answer 1

Buffering like you tube can be accomplished with native Objective C "MPMovieController". You can check out this if it works for you.

    MPMoviePlayerViewController* MPmoviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)
                                                 name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification
                                               object:nil];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)
                                                 name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                                               object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)
                                                 name:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification
                                               object:nil];
    moviePlayerController.moviePlayer.fullscreen=YES;
    moviePlayerController.moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay=YES;
    [self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayerController];

Declare MPmoviePlayerController a global variable.Then you handle notifications by defining its selector methods as per your requirements.

- (void)moviePlaybackComplete:(NSNotification *)notification
{
if([notification.name isEqual:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification])
{
    NSError *error = [[notification userInfo] objectForKey:@"error"];
    if (error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Did finish with error: %@", error);
    }
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
                                                    name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                                                  object:nil];
    [moviePlayerController.moviePlayer stop];
    moviePlayerController = nil;
    [self dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated];
}
else if([notification.name isEqual:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification])
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
                                                    name:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification
                                                  object:nil];
    [moviePlayerController.moviePlayer stop];
    moviePlayerController = nil;
    [self dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated];
}
}