How to play YouTube content on tvOS

Question

How would one play a YouTube video on Apple tvOS?

YouTube\'s embed feature works in iOS 9 as the OS has a UIWebView we can embed it into. The new tvOS does not incl

Answer 1

Swift 2.0 version of Daniel Storm's answer:

let youTubeString : String = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE"
let videos : NSDictionary = HCYoutubeParser.h264videosWithYoutubeURL(NSURL(string: youTubeString))
let urlString : String = videos["medium"] as! String
let asset = AVAsset(URL: NSURL(string: urlString)!)

let avPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset:asset)
let avPlayer = AVPlayer(playerItem: avPlayerItem)
let avPlayerLayer  = AVPlayerLayer(player: avPlayer)
avPlayerLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.width, self.view.frame.height);
self.view.layer.addSublayer(avPlayerLayer)
avPlayer.play()