AVPlayer streaming progress

Question

I\'m successfully using AVPlayer to stream audio from a server and what I want to do now is to show a custom UISlider who shows the progress of the

Answer 1

This method will return buffer time interval for your UISlider

public var bufferAvail: NSTimeInterval {

    // Check if there is a player instance
    if ((player.currentItem) != nil) {

        // Get current AVPlayerItem
        var item: AVPlayerItem = player.currentItem
        if (item.status == AVPlayerItemStatus.ReadyToPlay) {

            var timeRangeArray: NSArray = item.loadedTimeRanges
            var aTimeRange: CMTimeRange = timeRangeArray.objectAtIndex(0).CMTimeRangeValue
            var startTime = CMTimeGetSeconds(aTimeRange.start)
            var loadedDuration = CMTimeGetSeconds(aTimeRange.duration)

            return (NSTimeInterval)(startTime + loadedDuration);
        }
        else {
            return(CMTimeGetSeconds(kCMTimeInvalid))
        }
    } 
    else {
        return(CMTimeGetSeconds(kCMTimeInvalid))
    }
}

Answer 2

It should work well:

Objective-C:

- (CMTime)availableDuration
{
    NSValue *range = self.player.currentItem.loadedTimeRanges.firstObject;
    if (range != nil){
        return CMTimeRangeGetEnd(range.CMTimeRangeValue);
    }
    return kCMTimeZero;
}

Swift version:

func availableDuration() -> CMTime
{
    if let range = self.player?.currentItem?.loadedTimeRanges.first {
        return CMTimeRangeGetEnd(range.timeRangeValue)
    }
    return .zero
}

To watch current time value you can use: CMTimeShow([self availableDuration]); or CMTimeShow(availableDuration()) (for swift)

Answer 3

Selected answer may cause you problems if returned array is empty. Here's a fixed function:

- (NSTimeInterval) availableDuration
{
    NSArray *loadedTimeRanges = [[_player currentItem] loadedTimeRanges];
    if ([loadedTimeRanges count])
    {
        CMTimeRange timeRange = [[loadedTimeRanges objectAtIndex:0] CMTimeRangeValue];
        Float64 startSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.start);
        Float64 durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.duration);
        NSTimeInterval result = startSeconds + durationSeconds;
        return result;
    }
    return 0;
}

Answer 4

I am just working on this, and so far have the following:

- (NSTimeInterval) availableDuration;
{
  NSArray *loadedTimeRanges = [[self.player currentItem] loadedTimeRanges];
  CMTimeRange timeRange = [[loadedTimeRanges objectAtIndex:0] CMTimeRangeValue];
  Float64 startSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.start);
  Float64 durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.duration);
  NSTimeInterval result = startSeconds + durationSeconds;
  return result;
}

Answer 5

The code from Suresh Kansujiya in Objective C

NSTimeInterval bufferAvail;

if (player.currentItem != nil) {

    AVPlayerItem *item = player.currentItem;
    if (item.status == AVPlayerStatusReadyToPlay) {
        NSArray *timeRangeArray = item.loadedTimeRanges;
        CMTimeRange aTimeRange = [[timeRangeArray objectAtIndex:0] CMTimeRangeValue];
        Float64 startTime = CMTimeGetSeconds(aTimeRange.start);
        Float64 loadedDuration = CMTimeGetSeconds(aTimeRange.duration);

        bufferAvail = startTime + loadedDuration;

        NSLog(@"%@ - %f", [self class], bufferAvail);
    } else {
        NSLog(@"%@ - %f", [self class], CMTimeGetSeconds(kCMTimeInvalid)); }
}
else {
    NSLog(@"%@ - %f", [self class], CMTimeGetSeconds(kCMTimeInvalid));
}

Answer 6

Personally I do not agree that the timeRanges value will always have a count of 1.

According to the documentation

The array contains NSValue objects containing a CMTimeRange value indicating the times ranges for which the player item has media data readily available. The time ranges returned may be discontinuous.

So this may have values similar to:

[(start1, end1), (start2, end2)]

From my experience with the hls.js framework within the desktop web world, the holes between these time ranges could be very small or large depending on a multitude of factors, ex: seeking, discontinuities, etc.

So to correctly get the total buffer length you would need to loop through the array and get the duration of each item and concat.

If you are looking for a buffer value from current play head you would need to filter the time ranges for a start time that's greater than the current time and an end time that's less than current time.

public extension AVPlayerItem {

    public func totalBuffer() -> Double {
        return self.loadedTimeRanges
            .map({ $0.timeRangeValue })
            .reduce(0, { acc, cur in
                return acc + CMTimeGetSeconds(cur.start) + CMTimeGetSeconds(cur.duration)
            })
    }

    public func currentBuffer() -> Double {
        let currentTime = self.currentTime()

        guard let timeRange = self.loadedTimeRanges.map({ $0.timeRangeValue })
            .first(where: { $0.containsTime(currentTime) }) else { return -1 }

        return CMTimeGetSeconds(timeRange.end) - currentTime.seconds
    }

}