How to detect when an AVPlayerItem is finished playing? [duplicate]

Question

I've been looking through the AVPlayerItem and AVPlayer docs and there doesn't seem to be any callbacks for when the item is finished playing. I was hoping that there would be some sort of delegate callback that we can utilize or that AVPlayerActionAtItemEnd would provide a custom action for us to write.

How can i figure out a way to detect when AVPlayer has finished playing an item?

Answer 1

It uses NSNotification to alert when playback is finished.

Register for the notification:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(itemDidFinishPlaying:) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:playerItem]; 

Method to call when done:

-(void)itemDidFinishPlaying:(NSNotification *) notification {     // Will be called when AVPlayer finishes playing playerItem }