Chrishon Wyllie | Mobile & Web Developer

URLVideoPlayerView

The URLVideoPlayerView downloads and displays videos from URLs all while caching them from reuse

The simplest of the URLVideoPlayerView initializers accepts a delegate (More on this later), and the sourceURLString. Simply pass in the URL of the video, and it will be fetched and displayed.

let urlString = "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerBlazes.mp4"

let playerView = URLVideoPlayerView(delegate: nil, sourceURLString: urlString)
playerView.play()

/assets/videos/docs/celestial/single-urlvideoplayerview-example.mp4

Other Initializers

While this simple example shows to load a video from external location, it does not demonstrate how this video has been cached and will be reused.

Take a look at the displaying in cells section

URLVideoPlayerViewDelegate is explained in the delegate events section

ResourceCacheLocation is explained in the cache location section

VideoExportQuality is explained in the properties section

public convenience init(delegate: URLVideoPlayerViewDelegate?,
                        sourceURLString: String,
                        cacheLocation: ResourceCacheLocation,
                        videoExportQuality: Celestial.VideoExportQuality = .default)

// Example

let urlString = ...
let cacheLocation: ResourceCacheLocation = .fileSystem
let imageView = URLPlayerVideoView(delegate: nil, sourceURLString: urlString, cacheLocation: cacheLocation)

public init(delegate: URLVideoPlayerViewDelegate?, cacheLocation: ResourceCacheLocation = .fileSystem)

public init(frame: CGRect, cacheLocation: ResourceCacheLocation)