How a play a video inside a view not in fullscreen?

Question

I need to play a video inside a view not in full screen(like facebook)! Can anyone help? I'm using swift 2 and xcode 7. I've googled about it but all I find is run with AVPlayerViewController and fullscreen.

Ps: Sorry for the bad english.

Answer 1

This works:

class BeginController: UIViewController {
 @IBOutlet weak var videoPreviewLayer: UIView!
 var player: AVPlayer!
 var avpController = AVPlayerViewController()

 override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let moviePath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Hello Moto", ofType: "mp4")
    if let path = moviePath {
        let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path)
        self.player = AVPlayer(url: url)
        self.avpController = AVPlayerViewController()
        self.avpController.player = self.player
        avpController.view.frame = videoPreviewLayer.frame
        self.addChildViewController(avpController)
        self.view.addSubview(avpController.view)            
    }
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}

Answer 2

You can try to use AVPlayerLayer with desired size and position and play video on it.

Example code setting player and layer:

- (void)setupPlayer
{
    AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:<Your video item URL>];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(playFinished:) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:playerItem];

    self.player = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];

    self.playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:self.player];

    self.playerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill;

    [self.view.layer addSublayer:self.playerLayer];
}

More about AVPlayer and AVPlayerLayer

Answer 3

import AVFoundation
import AVKit

var player = AVPlayer()
var playerController = AVPlayerViewController()

func playVideo() {
    let videoURL = NSURL(string: videoUrl)
    player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL! as URL)
    let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
    playerController.player = player
    self.addChildViewController(playerController)

    // Add your view Frame
    playerController.view.frame = self.view.frame

    // Add sub view in your view
    self.view.addSubview(playerController.view)

    player.play()
}

for player stop or pause

func stopVideo() {
   player.pause()
}

This Code is work for me please try it.