How to check if AVPlayer has Video or just Audio?

Question

I try to play some \"media\" but at the time the AVPlayer starts I don\'t know if it is audio or Video.

I connected the player Layer and it works fine.

Answer 1

This helped me:

    // source from https://stackoverflow.com/a/55581216 Changed for last release AVFoundation
    func isAudioAvailable() -> Bool? {
        return self.player.currentItem?.tracks.filter({$0.assetTrack!.mediaType == AVMediaType.video}).count != 0
    }
    
    func isVideoAvailable() -> Bool? {
        return self.player.currentItem?.tracks.filter({$0.assetTrack!.mediaType == AVMediaType.video}).count != 0
    }

Answer 2

For Swift 4.2 you can do the following:

func isAudioAvailable() -> Bool? {
   return self.player?._asset?.tracks.filter({$0.mediaType == AVMediaType.audio}).count != 0   
}

func isVideoAvailable() -> Bool? {
   return self.player?._asset?.tracks.filter({$0.mediaType == AVMediaType.video}).count != 0   
}

or as extension

extension AVPlayer {
    var isAudioAvailable: Bool? {
        return self._asset?.tracks.filter({$0.mediaType == AVMediaType.audio}).count != 0
    }

    var isVideoAvailable: Bool? {
        return self._asset?.tracks.filter({$0.mediaType == AVMediaType.video}).count != 0
    }
}

Answer 3

From Apple’s sample code project AVSimplePlayer:

// Set up an AVPlayerLayer according to whether the asset contains video.
if ([[(AVAsset *)asset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] count] != 0)

Answer 4

I'm not sure but AVPlayerItem has the following array [mPlayerItem.asset.tracks] This contains two objects,one for video and another for audio.Access it as follows [mPlayerItem.asset.tracks objectAtIndex:0] for video and [mPlayerItem.asset.tracks objectAtIndex:1] for audio.