How to load MPMoviePlayerController contentUrl asynchronous when loading view?

Question

I try to play a video using a MPMoviePlayerController. The setup is: I push a new ViewController, then set up the view and the movie player instance in viewDidLoad and then use

Answer 1

I am not sure if this was a bug in the Swift betas or iOS 8 betas, but changing the code to use AVPlayer worked.

import AVFoundation
import AVKit

let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()

// In async block:

if let player = AVPlayer.playerWithURL(url) as? AVPlayer {
    playerViewController.player = player
}