Changing playerItem of AVPlayer in UITableView

Question

I have a UITableView containing a number of videos to play when scrolling. As the cells in the tableView are being re-used, I only instantiate one AVPlaye

Answer 1

You should profile your app using the time profiler to see where the lagging is actually occurring.

The documentation for replaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem: clearly states that it executes asynchronously, so it shouldn't be the source of your main queue jumpiness.

The item replacement occurs asynchronously; observe the currentItem property to find out when the replacement will/did occur.

Documentation here

If you still can't figure it out, post more code, and in particular at least your cellForRowAtIndexPath method.

UPDATE

As per @joey's comment below, the previous content of this answer is no longer valid. The documentation no longer states that the method is asynchronous, so it may not be.