AVPlayer wont play video from url in iOS9

Question

I am trying to embed an AVPlayer inside a UIView and play a mp4 video file from an url. The problem is I only receive a black blank view (See screenshot)

In previous iOS versions it worked for me, but since upgrading to iOS9 i got this problem.

My .h file looks like this:

@interface ViewController : UIViewController
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *viewPlayerContainer;

Whereas in my implementation file I have the following:

@import AVFoundation;
@import AVKit;

@interface ViewController ()

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4"];

    AVURLAsset *asset = [AVURLAsset assetWithURL: url];
    AVPlayerItem *item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset: asset];

    AVPlayer * player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem: item];

    [playerViewController.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, _viewPlayerContainer.bounds.size.width, _viewPlayerContainer.bounds.size.width)];

    playerViewController.showsPlaybackControls = NO;

    [_viewPlayerContainer addSubview:playerViewController.view];


    [player play];


}

Am i missing something here?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

@implementation ViewController{
    AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
     playerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
}

- (IBAction)playVideo:(id)sender {
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4"];

    AVURLAsset *asset = [AVURLAsset assetWithURL: url];
    AVPlayerItem *item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset: asset];

    AVPlayer * player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem: item];
    playerViewController.player = player;
    [playerViewController.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.width)];

    playerViewController.showsPlaybackControls = YES;

    [self.view addSubview:playerViewController.view];

    [player play];
}

Answer 2

The reason video is not playing is only due the tls version is too old in case of HTTP please see App Transport Security