How to play video inside a UIView without controls, like a background/wallpaper?

Question

The goal is to playback video file (*.mp4) inside a UIView without controls.

It will serve as a background/wallpaper on the ViewController and other controls, i.e. table

Answer 1

I've reached the goal with the native AVPlayer

1.Used AVFoundation:

#import 

2.Used property for player:

@property (nonatomic) AVPlayer *avPlayer;

3.Added video file into "Video" folder and added "Video" into project

4.Initialized the player

NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"shutterstock_v885172.mp4" ofType:nil inDirectory:@"Video"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
self.avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL];
self.avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone;

AVPlayerLayer *videoLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:self.avPlayer];
videoLayer.frame = self.view.bounds;
videoLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill;
[self.view.layer addSublayer:videoLayer];

[self.avPlayer play];

5.Subscribed for event - video did play to the end

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

6.Resumed video playing from the very start in related method

- (void)itemDidFinishPlaying:(NSNotification *)notification {
    AVPlayerItem *player = [notification object];
    [player seekToTime:kCMTimeZero];
}